Ted Cruz and Colin Allred both want people to believe their versions of history as they compete for a Texas Senate seat. Allred has been pointing out that Cruz helped spike a bipartisan border reform bill when Trump told him to. But Cruz has been painting Allred as a Johnny-come-lately to the issue that polls consistently say is the most important to Texas voters: the border and immigration reform.

Cruz claims to have been a backer of other less well-known border policy changes, while of course blaming immigrants for various crimes. Allred counters by pointing to his ties to the border city of Brownsville, where his mother is from and his grandfather worked as a U.S. Customs officer.

Conspicuously missing from this debate: any sense of urgency regarding aid to vulnerable asylum seekers and other migrants whose lives are directly affected by political policy.

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)