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
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