...1,000 or more families. But “now the streets are paved, and there are curbs, gutters and sidewalks. Streetlights have been installed. Garbage collection is available, and there are lots of social services,” Phillipp says. He adds that “the colonia is now a voting precinct, and in the last general election, 2012, we turned out over 1,300 votes.” He fears, however, that the number of votes cast in the colonia will drop dramatically, starting with the next election, because Texas' stringent voter ID law...
