Gabriel Antonio Solis Gabriel Antonio Solis is a PhD candidate in history at Columbia University, where he studies the U.S.-Mexico border and the history of export-assembly plants in Taiwan. Originally from El Paso, Texas, he frequently writes about border history, labor struggles, and politics in non-academic outlets.

Borderlands, Betrayed | How Hispanic Democrats Abandoned Progressivism in South Texas

Gabriel Antonio Solis

In February, before the Democrats swapped candidates, Joe Biden and Donald Trump separately visited Texas on the same day to present their respective plans for cracking down on border crossing. In Eagle Pass, Trump walked along a razor-wire fence, telling Border Patrol agents — and T.V. cameras — that the country was “being overrun” by “Biden migrant crime.” Biden, standing in front of another Border Patrol group a few hundred...