McALLEN, Texas - When the Rio Grande Guardian met up with Ada Cuellar a few months ago, ICE raids was not something the congressional candidate was hearing about from voters.
All that has changed in the light of the federal agency’s controversial actions in Minnesota.
“I think that they're, right now, very concerned about ICE,” said Cuellar, a medical doctor with a practice in Harlingen.
Asked to elaborate, Cuellar said: “Well, I think the concern here is that they (ICE) are raiding work sites, and that is creating chaos when people need workers and they can't even complete the work because of all of a sudden losing people. So there's obviously the economic piece.
“But the humanity piece is also a big piece everywhere, and particularly right now. What's happening is that ICE is killing people on the street, so that is top of mind, I think, for a lot of people right now, with what happened to Renée Good and Alex Pretti.”
Cuellar is running as a Democrat in Congressional District 15.
Here is the Guardian’s interview with Cuellar:
