Border Residents Describe Dramatic Change in Trump’s First 100 Days

In Starr County, Texas, Marcus Canales said the past 100 days under President Donald Trump have made him wonder if he’s living in the “Matrix,” the computer-generated virtual world made famous in the 1999 Hollywood science fiction movie by the same name. That’s because of the night-and-day difference when it comes to the number of illegal immigrants he’s seen since Trump took back the White House, scoring historic gains in this heavily Hispanic county that went red for the first time in 130 years. “Oh, the man gets an A+,” said Canales, a retired teacher. “I mean, compared to where we were—at an F-,” he said....