Thursday 22 September 2022 08:59 PM Wives of border patrol agents running for Congress because they are fed up with ... trends now
The wives of border patrol agents are running for Congress after becoming fed up with what their husbands have to deal with under President Joe Biden's immigration policies.
Of the three running for Congress, Representative Mayra Flores already won a special election in June to replace a Democratic congressman who left mid-term in Texas' 34th congressional district.
The other two are Cassy Garcia, who beat out six other Republicans to take on Democrat Representative Henry Cuellar and Irene Armendariz-Jackson, who quit her job as a Realtor in El Paso to challenge Democratic Representative Veronica Escobar.
If Garcia and Armendariz-Jackson are successful, Republicans will only need to flip two more House seats in the 2022 midterm elections to win back a majority in the lower chamber. Predictions have shown for months that Democrats would lose the House in November's election.
The three womens' focus on border issues has won them broad support from conservatives in the border state.
Three wives of Border Patrol agents, including Representative Mayra Flores (pictured), are running for Congress in Texas in the 2022 midterms because they are fed up
The other two wives of border agents running are Cassy Garcia (left), who beat out six other Republicans to take on Democrat Representative Henry Cuellar and Irene Armendariz-Jackson (right), who quit her job as a Realtor in El Paso to challenge Democratic Representative Veronica Escobar
Figures released from August show that Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) has encountered more than 2 million migrants in 2022 – and there's still one more month left of reporting before the end of the fiscal year.
There has also been a record-breaking number of migrant deaths along the border with 780 reported this year.
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