{"id":23286,"date":"2026-11-02T19:19:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T19:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23286"},"modified":"2026-11-02T19:19:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T19:19:53","slug":"a-political-rebellion-in-the-rio-grande-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23286","title":{"rendered":"A Political Rebellion in the Rio Grande Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A lot of people voted for Trump thinking he would get rid of illegal immigrant criminals&#8211;like rapists and murderers. Some of those voters are distraught that Trump is mass deporting illegals who are just working hard at a job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sad thing is, anyone who could objectively follow Trump could have told them: Trump was always going to mass deport, with most of those people being hard workers whose only crime was crossing a line they weren&#8217;t supposed to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US citizens of Hispanic descent who work in immigrant-typical industries live in fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because so much skilled construction labor was deported, house construction is now more expensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Political Rebellion in the Rio Grande Valley\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GlikYVRyniY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people voted for Trump thinking he would get rid of illegal immigrant criminals&#8211;like rapists and murderers. Some of those voters are distraught that Trump is mass deporting illegals who are just working hard at a job. <\/p>\n<p>The sad thing is, anyone who could objectively follow Trump could have told them: Trump was always going to mass deport, with most of those people being hard workers whose only crime was crossing a line they weren&#8217;t supposed to. <\/p>\n<p>US citizens of Hispanic descent who work in immigrant-typical industries live in fear. <\/p>\n<p>Because so much skilled construction labor was deported, house construction is now more expensive. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GlikYVRyniY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2189,221,372,198,270,26,493,25,1316,1407,21,170,479],"class_list":["post-23286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-construction","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-elections","tag-housing","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-inflation","tag-prices","tag-texas","tag-trump","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23287,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23286\/revisions\/23287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}