O'Rourke: The border is the greatest opportunity that Texas has ever known
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS - Beto O\u2019Rourke says that if elected governor of Texas he will invest heavily in infrastructure for border communities.\xa0
In an exclusive interview with the Rio Grande Guardian International News Service about economic development, O\u2019Rourke pointed out that the ports of entry through which US-Mexico trade passes support more than 600,000 jobs across the state of Texas.
\u201cVery often Governor Abbott, Lieutenant Governor Patrick, will talk about the border simply as a threat, a place where people are coming to get us from. They use words, as you have heard, like invasion. Governor Abbott encouraged us to defend ourselves and literally said, take matters into your own hands when it comes to immigrants at the border, which in part helped to inspire that shooter who came to El Paso two and a half years ago and killed 23 people,\u201d O\u2019Rourke said.
\u201cThe border is actually the greatest opportunity that Texas has ever known. The goods that we produce and manufacture in this state flows through these ports of entry to markets around the globe. And the things that we manufacture together with our partners in Mexico come back through these ports with a majority of the value added content produced here in the United States and in Texas and so there are hundreds of thousands of jobs that depend on our ability to facilitate the flow of trade in Laredo and Brownsville, McAllen, El Paso and other critical land ports.\u201d
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Editor's Note: In the attached podcast, Beto O\u2019Rourke also speaks about SpaceX, meeting with Brownsville Mayor Trey Mendez, and the need to invest in broadband.\xa0
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