On the Texas-Mexico border: Crisis? What crisis?
MCALLEN, Texas - As the nation waited to hear President Donald Trump's latest warnings about a crisis on the border Saturday, a mother in this border town had a more immediate concern: quinceanera photos.
Liliana Saenz supervised as 14-year-old daughter Clarissa posed for a photographer in front of an American flag mural downtown. Saenz didn't care if Trump declared a national of emergency (he didn't). She didn't even plan to watch the president speak. Neither did the photographer she had hired.
"An emergency is: Are we going to cross the border to get tacos?" Fernando Arteaga said, and they laughed.
Trump raised alarms again Saturday in his latest televised address about "a humanitarian and security crisis on our southern border that requires urgent action."
"It is a horrible crisis. It is a humanitarian crisis like we rarely see in our country," he said.
But most interviewed in this Democratic stronghold said that McAllen, which Trump visited 10 days ago, doesn't feel anything like a crisis zone. Migrants have flowed across the border here for generations, and most of those arriving now are families seeking asylum at a local shelter. McAllen's downtown, La Plaza mall and local farmers markets were bustling with crowds, but not migrants.
For Saenz and her quinceanera photo crew, a crisis would have been rain - it was sunny and clear. Or not having a dress in time (Clarissa did - it's royal blue, like Wonder Woman) or shoes (she was wearing red high tops).
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