BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “People and businesses across this border city reflected the national debate raging over President Donald Trump’s border wall during his visit Thursday [1-10-19]. Protesters favoring the wall and those opposed to new barriers took to the streets as residents insisted there was no crisis. Across the street from U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s McAllen Station, which Trump is scheduled to tour, demonstrators lined the sidewalk. Anti-Trump protesters inflated a Trump-baby blimp, while the president’s supporters chanted, ‘Build that Wall!’ Eddie Zamora waved a large blue ‘TRUMP’ flag as the Trump-baby blimp floated behind him. He said he supported a wall to secure his community…At the Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley Humanitarian Respite Center, which helps immigrants released from federal custody, families arranged bus tickets for relatives in the USA as children rummaged through bins of donated toys and volunteers handed out oranges. Sister Norma Pimentel, who runs the center, said about 100 migrants were there, down from a daily average of 300 to 500 in December – a high average for December but lower than previous years.”
–Rick Jervis, “As Trump visits border, McAllen residents ask: What crisis?,” USA Today, January 10, 2019 5:53 pm