Rep. Torres Small voting against own community

Luis Leyva

...Congresswoman Torres Small’s voting record today is a disappointment to voters in her district, especially to all the community members who so eagerly mobilized to defeat … Yvette Herrell. Although the congresswoman voted to pass the Dream and Promise Act that would protect many people from Trump’s deportation machine, she also voted to add $4.5 million to beef up the deportation force in the Department of Homeland Security’s budget. She has continued to vote for more funds and recently voted to commend CBP, the same agency responsible for family separations and the deaths of members of our immigrant communities – most recently a 52-year-old man from Nicaragua – the 13th death under U.S. custody since December 2018. People have died after not being given proper medical care while being detained in these detention centers that Rep. Torres Small has so willingly given more money to. Let’s also not forget that Rep. Torres Small voted against a $15 minimum wage, citing that it would hurt rural communities. All while the detention centers in the same rural communities depend on this inhumane treatment for economic stability at the expense of thousands of innocent lives. Immigrants who live, or have family, in her district, like myself, are under attack by the Trump administration. Her voting record is betrayal of the promise that … we would have a champion fighting for us in Washington, D.C. Instead of appeasing anti-immigrant sentiments, the congresswoman should fight to develop a green economy industry in our district rather than continuing to fund an industry that is responsible for the deaths of immigrants at the border..MORE

Too bad Rep. Small's "own community" doesn't realize how smart she is playing it, trying to be the first Democrat re-elected in this district since Harold Runnels. All she's got to do is win this one election, and she will hold that seat for as long as she likes.