Because they will be the ones living with the thing. Fun fact? US/Mexico trade is about 650 billion a year. 1/3 of that goes through Texas. Politics will always take second place in a sane mind to cash.
We had some guests the other day from Texas mention that they live right on the border and nobody is really bothered by the mexicans. It kind of seem like making mexicans the boogeyman works best on people who don't actually live around them. Like it was easier to hate gays when they weren't our neighbours, co-workers and friends. Well they were, they just didn't come out so people didn't know it.
Shit. Warren Ellis wrote a comic book about Trump's election... in 1997!!
This book is sitting on my book shelf, signed, right next to Generation debt and Welcome to the Jungle