At the Republican headquarters in the small border town of Nogales, Arizona the phone lines have been burning up as millennials make phone calls on behalf of their candidate, Donald Trump. Sharing their enthusiasm in over 93,000 telephone calls, the college and high school students told conservative radio show host, James T. Harris that they hope their support for Trump will lead to more jobs for their community.
They hope a Trump administration will bring prosperity to border towns like theirs which have not experienced a recovery and have actually been harmed by Obama administration policies like Operation Choke Point.
After a long day of working the phones, the millennials, who were mostly Mexican Americans, welcomed Harris. As a self-described “American of African descent,” Harris told them that they were not supposed to exist; at least according to the mainstream media’s narrative.
Harris was invited down to the border by Republican activist Sergio Arellano. “People have given this vote up for lost or taken it for granted,” Arellano told Harris referring to the Democratic and Republican parties.
According to Arellano, because the “democrats think the minorities are going to vote Democrat,” they take their vote for granted. He said Republicans assume they can’t get those votes. Arellano and his team have proven that assumption is dead wrong.
“The Democrats don’t really give a crap about what is happening in this community,” said Arellano of the second poorest county in the state of Arizona.
When Harris asked the students if immigration was their top priority, they said “no” emphatically; jobs are the number one concern.
“People don’t really care about us. Your big time politicians do not come to Nogales, Arizona. You know who you get? You get democrats who come and pander. That is the only reason they show up.” Arellano asked, “Why do you have to be that bird that comes in craps on somebody and takes off? Because that is what happens.”
Arellano says that it is because of conservatives like Harris, and Arizona’s GOP chairman Robert Graham that an office could be opened on the border.
After Harris’ speech, the ramped-up students decided that with their day of work done, they would march around town promoting Trump. The students were greeted by honking horns, shouts of “go Trump,” expletives, and hurled rocks.
(I myself had two rocks nearly strike me as I trailed behind the young people. One nearly hit me in the head and another skipped right past my foot.)
The millennials were undaunted. They are fired-up and they want the world to know they do exist.