From Michigan to Kansas, midterm election results are continuing to reveal overwhelming wins for Democrats.
That includes a blue wave for communities along the border.
Come January, each border state from California to Texas will be led by a Democratic governor. That includes governor-elect Gina Hinojosa, who’s set to serve as Texas’s first Democratic governor since the 1990s.
In addition, a Democratic congressional member is set to lead each House of Representatives district along the U.S.-Mexico border.
“Latino and immigrant communities are tired of being terrorized and our borderlands vilified,” said U.S. Rep. Adelita Grijalva in a statement Wednesday, acknowledging the blue wave along border districts.
Like Grijalva’s district – a decades-long Democratic stronghold – the vast majority of House districts along the border were already Democrat-led.
One district, however, flipped this election cycle: Congressional District 6, which includes a section of the border west of Douglas. The Associated Press called the race for Democratic candidate JoAnna Mendoza on Wednesday afternoon.
Speaking to reporters Tuesday night, Mendoza criticized the effectiveness of a border wall.
“It’s really not working, to be honest. Again, it makes sense in some areas, and in other areas it doesn’t, and we really need to invest in technology, modernizing surveillance on the border,” she said.
Mendoza also said she supported federal funding for county sheriffs to enforce border policy, a system that’s drawn differing reactions from sheriffs along Arizona’s border.
