In a remote corner of West Texas along the Rio Grande, where cactuses far outnumber residents and the closest grocer is an hour’s drive, a quiet political upheaval has been taking place.
Terrell County Treasurer Rebecca Luevano is one of the many county officials who recently joined the Republican Party.
The transformation of local politics in Terrell County — a working-class border community of fewer than 1,000 people — provides an ominous signal for Texas Democrats: Conservative Hispanics are not only realigning in presidential elections, but also in contests much closer to home. But the shift is evident all around Sanderson, from the Trump signs on some buildings to the reticence with which the remaining Democrats talk about their beliefs. Beto O’Rourke, the former El Paso congressman and Democratic candidate for governor, passed through last month — spending the night at a local motel — but he did not linger.
Politics in Sanderson have been shaped, in recent months, by the sharp increase in the number of people crossing the border from Mexico. Terrell County is now set to receive far more than that from the state, about $8 million, as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s push to increase law enforcement along the border.
“It’s like I’m still on Border Patrol,” said the Terrell County sheriff, Santiago Gonzalez, who worked as a Border Patrol agent for more than 30 years. Roberts, who grew up in nearby Marathon, complained about the effect that hardening the border had had on neighboring communities. “It used to be you could put them to work,” he said of men coming from Mexico. “Now it’s against the law to employ them, so we only get the bad, and none of the good.”
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