Flores briefly represented the district after winning a 2022 special election. Gonzalez went on to beat her by nearly 9 points in the general.
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Flores, 38, briefly represented the district after she won a special election in July 2022. At the time, Gonzalez, 57, represented a neighboring district. However, state lawmakers redrew the state’s congressional maps following the 2020 census. In redrawing the South Texas boundaries, state lawmakers drew Gonzalez, who lives in McAllen, into the new District 34, which was more competitive for Republicans.District 34 is located at the southeast corner of the state, along the Gulf Coast.
Flores, who is Mexican-born, has drawn from her background as an immigrant to oppose illegal immigration. She also has denounced the large number of migrants seeking asylum, which has inflamed the debate over immigration nationwide. “We can always improve and there's always things that we can do better but overall, things are not that bad for the American people," Gonzalez said in an interview.
Gonzalez expressed support for the bipartisan Senate bill that Republicans eventually voted down as a solution to border security, calling it a “good bill” that would have added 1,100 new asylum officers,approximately 150 immigration judges to process asylum claims and more border patrol agents. The bill would have expedited asylum screenings, increased detention capacity and allowed the president to shut down the border if migration levels surpassed certain thresholds.
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