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Sheriff Joe Frank Martinez has served four terms as the top law enforcement officer in Val Verde County, Texas, a sprawling rural territory that shares 110 miles of border with Mexico. Martinez says his father, a staunch Democrat, raised him and his nine siblings to serve their community.
Martinez’s run for office provides a glimpse at how new patterns of immigration along the border have coincided with, if not driven, changing attitudes among voters who live there. Some communities once considered Democratic strongholds have begun to turn red, a trend bolstered by Republican efforts to court Latino voters.
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Katie Campbell
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Gerardo del Valle
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Senior Producers
Editing, color and sound
Gerardo del Valle
Graphics and animation
Mauricio Rodríguez Pons
Senior Producers
Almudena Toral
Lisa Riordan Seville
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