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The border and public safety

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Campaign positions

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Eric Flores

His campaign lists securing the border and supporting law enforcement among his priorities, and describes his work as a federal prosecutor of human smugglers.

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Vicente Gonzalez

No position on the border or on policing was found on his issues page, which sets out seven subjects without either. His accomplishments page concerns immigration only in its work on deported veterans.

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Chris Royal

His current site does not address it. In his 2024 survey he said immigration would not be a problem if the president simply executed the laws already on the books.

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Eddie Espinoza

No border position was found on his site. His platform lists common-sense gun control, and says he holds the 2026 Moms Demand Action Gun Sense Candidate distinction.

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Evidence timeline

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  1. Occurred Jul 30, 2024

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    Eric Flores: Matches stated direction

    His campaign says that as a federal prosecutor he dismantled the district's largest transnational human-smuggling ring. A U.S. Attorney's release of July 30, 2024 names him as the prosecutor of a smuggling ring that moved 2,459 migrants and laundered $2.9 million. Its two leaders were ordered to serve 240 months in federal prison. The release says the judge agreed it was one of the largest alien smuggling takedowns the district had seen in recent history. Limit: The release says one of the largest in recent history, not the largest. The FBI led the investigation with help from other agencies; he prosecuted the case. It was read from an archived copy because justice.gov sent a bot-check page.

    Eric Flores for Congress U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas

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