Texas Teabagger – Dump immigrants at congressional doorsteps

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2011/02/25  No Responses »
Feb 252011
 
Texas Teabagger - Dump immigrants at congressional doorsteps

Arizona doesn’t have all the nutcase legislators. Texas has a few of our own, including state Rep. Lois Kolkhorst (R-Brenham) who recently introduced a bill that would force law enforcement officials to take undocumented migrants to a Congressional or Senate office and dump them on the doorstep. The bill reads: A law enforcement agency that has custody of an illegal immigrant to whom this article applies may: (1) release or discharge the illegal immigrant at the office of a United States senator or United States representative during that office ’s normal business hours; and (2) request an agent or employee of the United States senator or United States representative to sign a document acknowledging the release or discharge of the illegal MORE

Young-Hartley continues to embellish her “story” of what happened on Falcon Lake

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2010/10/11  Comments Off
Oct 112010
 
Young-Hartley continues to embellish her "story" of what happened on Falcon Lake

In an interview with the Rio Grande Valley’s “Action 4 News”, Tiffany Young-Hartley, dry eyed and stone faced, recounts how they moved to Reynosa, naive to the violence that had been confronting the borderlands. To her, the violence came as a “complete shock”. In the interview with Action 4′s Katie Lopez, one of the valleys more competent reporters, she recalls details seemingly just now coming to mind.

Federal judge questions immigration prosecutions

 Posted by on 2010/02/06  Comments Off
Feb 062010
 
Federal judge questions immigration prosecutions

In an order filed Friday, a federal judge in Austin questioned U.S. prosecutors for seeking criminal convictions in court against some illegal immigrants, writing that the practice “presents a cost to the American taxpayer … that is neither meritorious nor reasonable.” The order by U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks comes as his docket, like others in Texas, is swollen with defendants charged with immigration crimes. Most of those prosecuted in Austin have been identified by immigration officers at the Travis County Jail and charged with illegal entry after deportation. Many of those defendants have no significant criminal history and until a change in enforcement strategy about two years ago would have been deported and not prosecuted.

Democratic frontrunner Kinky Friedman withdraws from Texas Governors Race – Seek Ag Commissioner post instead – Former Houston Mayor Bill White in the race

 Posted by on 2010/01/13  Comments Off
Jan 132010
 
Democratic frontrunner Kinky Friedman withdraws from Texas Governors Race - Seek Ag Commissioner post instead - Former Houston Mayor Bill White in the race

Following weekend meetings with Mayor Bill White and Farouk Shami, Kinky Friedman announced today that he is abandoning his campaign for Texas Governor and entering the race to become the Democratic nominee for Texas Commissioner of Agriculture. “This has never been about me; this has always been about what is best for the people of Texas and the Democratic Party,” Friedman stated. “After my visit with Bill my mind was made up. There is a clear alternative for the people of Texas, and today I’m changing courses with a happy heart. I’ve determined that the best way that I can help the ticket and serve Texas families is by switching to the Ag Commissioner’s race. Former Texas Agriculture Commissioner, Jim MORE

Texas Virtual border system ineffective, a monumental joke!

 Posted by on 2009/07/12  4 Responses »
Jul 122009
 
Texas Virtual border system ineffective, a monumental joke!

Gov. Rick “Slick Rick” Perry’s border Web camera program has run out of money, and in its first full year of operation failed to meet nearly every law enforcement goal. Last year, Perry gave the Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition a $2 million federal grant to install cameras along the U.S.-Mexico border and broadcast the footage live over the Internet. An internal report showed that a fraction of the 200 cameras Perry wanted on the border were installed, and that Internet border patrollers produced a handful of drug busts and a scattering of arrests. Experts on both sides of the immigration issue said the program was unsuccessful. Certain lawmakers have called it a waste. “Instead of making Texas safer, it has MORE

Governor’s Border Policy aimed at the 2010 GOP Primary

 Posted by on 2008/12/26  Comments Off
Dec 262008
 
Governor's Border Policy aimed at the 2010 GOP Primary

By:Grits for Breakfast To understand Texas’ border security policy, you don’t actually need to know anything about security, but it sure helps to know about elections. Since at least 2005, Texas Governor Rick Perry’s re-election priorities have openly dominated Texas’ border security policy. Campaign ads stoking fears of “terrorists” crossing the border were the centerpiece of Perry’s 2006 gubernatorial re-election bid, and in 2007 the Legislature ponied up more than $100 million in pork-barrel grants – some of it going to people who where themselves working for the drug cartels – in an effort to create what’s really quite a tenuous, money-driven coalition between law enforcement on the border and anti-immigrant activists in Texas cities and suburbs. Perry’s incumbency advantage MORE