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Hispanic Voters in Texas Turn Against Trump Over Immigration

6 sources · updated 2026-10-23
Left 17% Center 83% Right 0%
1 left · 5 center · 0 right

What happened

In the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump won about 55% of Hispanic votes in Texas, a record for a Republican nominee, after campaigning on stopping illegal border crossings. Border crossings have since fallen to their lowest levels in decades. Texas accounted for roughly one-third of nationwide ICE arrests in July 2026, according to government figures obtained by the Deportation Data Project. Ahead of the November 3 midterm elections, recent polls indicate a majority of Texas Hispanic voters disapprove of the president and currently favor Democrats; some 2024 Trump voters in the Rio Grande Valley say they distinguish border security from ICE actions against non-criminal workers. Named local figures include McAllen Republican Mayor Javier Villalobos, businessman Mario Guerrero, and Democratic candidate Bobby Pulido in Texas’s redrawn 15th Congressional District.
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BLINDSPOT. Only left-leaning outlets are covering this story — the other side's media is silent.
Omitted — what each side leaves out

Unpacked

Right-leaning outlets had not covered this as of publication, so a reader on that side would not learn of the reported Hispanic retreat in Texas. Left-leaning coverage says Trump took 55% of Hispanic votes in the state last cycle, a high-water mark that later polls have reversed into majority disapproval. That same reporting puts Texas at one-third of ICE arrests nationwide in a single recent month. Local Republicans in the BBC account still praise a closed border and still reject deportations of people they call productive and law-abiding. Left-leaning coverage leads with a chapel sermon against ICE rather than with the vote numbers, using the priest's line that agents detain "poor, good folks" who are neighbors. Only one left outlet has told the story in full, so there is no split to compare, and a right-leaning reader never sees that opening or the surveys that follow. What share of those Texas ICE arrests were of people with no criminal convictions?
Bottom line

Right-leaning outlets are not reporting the Texas Hispanic shift at all, while the BBC already shows a Democratic polling lead in a border House seat drawn as an 18-point Republican majority.

The receipts — 3 facts one side's coverage lacks
  • Trump took around 55% of Hispanic votes in Texas in 2024, a record for a Republican presidential candidate numberin BBC · absent from right-leaning coverage
  • Nearly 60% of Latino voters say the Trump administration is deporting more people than they expected numberin CBS News · absent from right-leaning coverage
  • Mario Guerrero, a three-time Trump voter who leads the South Texas Builders Association, plans to vote Democrat in November individual casein BBC · absent from right-leaning coverage
The Left View
The BBC reports from the Rio Grande Valley that Hispanic support for Trump has receded since 2024, quoting Father Roy Snipes criticizing ICE detentions, educators describing families affected by deportations, and Guerrero, a three-time Trump voter now planning to vote Democratic, citing workplace labor shortages and unease with enforcement. It cites polls showing Texas Hispanic voters disapproving of Trump and favoring Democrats, notes Texas’s 15th District was redrawn to a notional 18-point Republican edge yet is polling with a Democratic lead of five or six points, and says a modest swing could put a U.S. Senate seat in play. CBS News reports that immigration helped Trump in 2024, that nearly 60% of Latino voters in its polling say the administration is deporting more people than they expected, and that some Texans say the crackdown has gone too far.
Our Take (balanced)
The story is substantive: it uses named actors, attributed polls, a cited ICE-arrest share from government figures, and specific districts and candidates rather than a single uncorroborated claim. Established are Trump’s 2024 Hispanic vote share in Texas, the later drop in border crossings, and on-the-record comments from people such as Villalobos and Guerrero. The scale of any midterm reversal remains polling, not election results; ICE totals rest on the cited figures. No right-leaning outlet has reported this. Watch for further public polling, official ICE data, Republican responses, and the November 3 results in the 15th District and any Texas Senate race.

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