Bay Area Houston

I rarely agree with Congressman Al Green but he is spot on this issue.

According to the Houston Chronicle Mayor Whitmire declined to get involved in the investigation concerning the shooting by ICE agents of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. The Mayor claims the city is powerless in a federal investigation. I have to join many on City Council and across the County and Congressman Al Green. This is an all hands on deck moment and our city needs the resources of all levels of government because we have seen how ICE conducts their investigations.

ICE is corrupt and must be reformed to a functioning immigration agency. They are simply out of control. They are killing people because they have botched so many enforcement raids. In Salgado’s situation they could have waited till he was in the open, or at his house. Or they could have simply made a phone call requiring him to turn himself in. Salgado wasn’t a criminal. He wasn’t dangerous. Regardless of his immigration status he did not deserve to die.

If Whitmire is not going to take action then we should. We should learn the identities of those involved in the shooting. We should find videos documenting the incident. We should crowdsource an investigation into these individuals to learn their background, training, and experience. There needs to be an open, transparent investigation and charges brought if warranted.

ICE is dangerous. They should be given a choice. Take off your face masks, put on a name tag, follow the law, and stop killing human beings or leave the g**damn city. It should be that simple.

You just can’t make this stuff up.

Yep. The local republican club, the Clear Creek Republican Women, are having their monthly meeting at Las Brisas in League City with their guest speaker Luisa Deason, an immigrant, and former DHS/ICE employee. It just doesn’t make a lot of sense to bring an ICE sympathizer to a Mexican restaurant to defend the cruelty of ICE especially one that wasn’t even born here. Luisa consults with MAGAts running for office on immigration policy which probably means how to frame their cruelty so idiots would believe it is fine.

Maybe the women who are attending will grow a pair and ask a couple of hard questions like “Why are they the only law enforcement agency allowed to wear masks?” or “Why are they allowed to kill Americans without consequences?” or “How did your family breeze through the immigration process?”.

Back in 2007 Deason provided commentary as the PR person for a lunch ICE raid at a Houston business. Enjoy your gdamn lunch.

The ONLY people who support illegal immigration are those who hire them. It’s time we start naming them.

ICE was in the Clear Lake yesterday. Instead of going after the people who have invited illegal immigrants into the Bay Area, offered them jobs, and protection they raided a school next to a church. They raided a couple of apartment complexes. They raided Home Depot. They covered their faces. They wielded automatic weapons. All in all they probably caught a couple of moms and dads trying to make life better for themselves instead of going after the real criminals.

Who do you think are hiring illegal workers? It’s plain as day and it’s in writing! An Op-Ed written by a number of business owners was published in the Dallas Morning News calling on Congress to fix our broken immigration system so they can legally profit off these workers. This list of businesses include homebuilders, restaurant owners, chicken processing owners, car dealerships, and others. Here are the owners who signed the OP-Ed:

But instead of going after the owners, who by the way, donate to the Republican Party, they go after those who work for them. $170 Billion is being spent on guns, ICE costumes, face masks, and cool sunglasses to catch a few people caught in the trap instead of raiding home building work sites, arresting the owners and foremen, and putting them in cages.

So, the next time you buy a home, eat at a restaurant, wash your car, just remember ICE should be coming after you for supporting illegal workers.

This would solve at least half of all the immigration problems. It won’t solve the problem of illegal workers coming from Germany or Ireland, but it is a start.

Bills are already being filed for the legislation session starting in 2025. The Welfare for the Wealthy School Voucher bill will be considered high priority as well as the bill requiring school districts to post the 10 Catholic Commandments in schools. I’m wondering if a bill to reduce our home insurance will be filed or passed. But the one I like is jail time for any business owner who hires illegal workers.

I’ve always wondered why they just don’t tackle the problem at the root. If businesses would stop hiring illegal workers the problem will go away. Steep fines and jail time would discourage businesses from doing business with illegal workers. The reason this hasn’t happened is because the megadonors to the Republic Party told them not to. Read the OP-ED in the Dallas Morning News by 36 of the biggest companies in Texas to Congress pleading for immigration reform. These owners include Bob Perry of Bob Perry Homes, Red McCombs, Bo Pilgrim, and others listed below.

So. Put one of these rotten fuckers in jail and they will think twice about hiring illegal workers. In the meantime, help your elected officials and report any business you know who are hiring illegal workers.

It shouldn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out how to stop illegal immigration and we all know Houston has a lot of rocket scientists. Unfortunately, after decades of a broken immigration system there is no end in sight and no political will to end or at least curb illegal immigration. This lack of courage has resulted in inhumane treatment of immigrants legally entering the United States and posses of hillbillies patrolling the border. But there is a more effective way.

Elected officials are attacking this problem at the border when they should be focusing on why these illegal immigrants come to the United States in the first place, to make money. Those entering the US at the port of entry seeking asylum from violence in their own country must surrender at the border and submit to a long, broken process. Allowing immigrants to legally enter our country is governed by an international treaty which the United States signed back in 1951. This process must be fixed, or else elected officials will continue to abuse those seeking help from their fellow human beings. 

Those entering the country illegally or those who enter on a work VISA but overstay are here to make a living. Many cross the border knowing they have someone, a family member, or a friend, already in the country and have a possibility of being hired by a homebuilder, restaurant owner, or other business. Once in the country and employed these immigrants will lay low, stay out of trouble, blend in, do their job and make money. Their employees reap the benefits of their hard work and skills while looking the other way when calls for immigration reform are being made.

Business owners across the State have called for comprehensive immigration reform, many signing to an op-ed in August 2006, titled “Pass Immigration Reform”. Those signing this op-ed included home builders, restaurant owners, car dealers, chicken processor owners and others. This call fell on deaf ears and for good reason. Immigration has been used as a campaign issue for decades. There is no political will to solve this problem by the elected officials these business owners contribute to because it’s what they campaign on to be re-elected. So, it is up to others to solve this. Here is a snippet of their op-ed:

Think for a minute about one Texas sector that relies heavily on immigrant workers: construction. A typical Texasconstruction worker earns more than $50,000 a year if he regularly works overtime. Employers say they do everythingthey can to attract native-born workers. But few young Americans want to do hard physical labor, particularly in ourclimate. And in the less-skilled construction trades — masonry, concrete, drywall, tile — more than 80 percent of Texas’workforce is Latino.

Instead of attacking this problem at the border take the fight to those who have enticed these immigrants to come and stay here. Maybe the hillbilly posses should dress up like GI Joe and walk the streets of the new home builder construction sites looking for the illegal immigrants the builders have hired, providing jobs that are being taken away from hard working Americans. Simply focusing on one homebuilder that has political clout could bring their construction to a halt until the builder demands immigration reform. In Texas walking the streets with loaded assault weapons dressed like immigration enforcement is legal and would get the attention of those who are here illegally, those who are laying low, staying out of trouble, blending in, doing their job, and making money.

This process would make it easy for self-proclaimed immigration officials to monitor home builders, restaurant owners, car dealers, and chicken processor owners right in the comfort of their own neighborhoods. There will be no need to travel to the border and spend money on housing and food when they could simply go home after a day of work monitoring their local homebuilder, protecting America, and looking for illegal workers.

It’s a win-win for everyone. /sarcasm

There is no denying it any longer and there is no nice way to say it. Greg Abbott is an asshole. Just a Texas sized, lying, crippled, asshole.

On the first day of Hispanic Heritage Month Greg Abbott bussed immigrants, who came here legally through a port of entry, to Vice President Kamela Harris neighborhood in Washington DC. What kind of a dick does something like this? Seriously, why do you have to be a dick about everything?

Instead of seriously trying to address our immigration problems Abbott has resorted to racist, un-American, and Kruel human trafficking stunts to appease his racist base of MAGAt republicans. He thinks it is funny. He thinks it is cute. Maybe he will also deport his wife who is also celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month.

Coming through a port of entry, applying for asylum, is not illegal under international and federal laws. The immigrants are to be processed and released but are to return to justify their request. Instead Abbott like the Kruel douche he is bussed them to other states where they will find it hard to return and then become illegal. It’s Kruel. It’s Khaotic. It’s Krap.

This is the new GOP. The KKK has returned with the biggest asshole of the nation leading the way.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why, after 20 years of republican rule in Texas, republicans have not and will not fix our broken immigration system. It’s all they have to run on.

Think about it. Greg Abbott and his Republican Party have been in complete control of Texas in the House, Senate, Governor’s office, Supreme Court, and all state wide offices and yet after 20 years they still haven’t even addressed our broken immigration system except for Kruel, Khaotic, and Kostly political stunts. (KKK)

Now that women have been stripped of their reproduction rights by overturning Roe v. Wade, the Republican Party has only one boogie man left to blame for crime, stealing jobs, and raping Texan women who must carry the rapist baby to term: Mexicans. They have campaigned on the immigration issue for more than 20 years even though they controlled all levels of government on the Federal level and state level. They never intend to solve this problem.

Back n August of 2006 under a Republican President and Governor the major sugar daddies of the Republican Party wrote an op-ed in the Dallas Morning News calling for immigration reform. According to the op-ed:

Not only that, but immigrant workers renew and reinvigorate America. They remind us what it’s like to give a job your all. We talk about old-fashioned family values; they live them. And those of us who cherish our faith and love our country can only rejoice at their devotion to both. As chairmen, CEOs and stockholders, we call on Congress to act — to go back to Washington and pass realistic immigration reform that provides the workers we need to keep our businesses growing.

Dallas Morning News August 26, 2006

Newsflash: The republicans did nothing. Nothing at all. Zero. Zip. Nada. These companies thrive on illegal, cheap, workers. They depend upon illegal, cheap, workers. Those who signed this op-ed include Bob Perry (homebuilder) Bo Pilgrim (chicken producer), J. Huffines (Auto dealer), Red McCombs (Auto dealer) and other Republican Party sugar daddies.

Even under trump and a republican controlled congress and republican controlled state they did absolutely nothing. They didn’t pass a bill to fund their “stupid” wall but they did initiate Kruel stunts such as separating children from their mothers.

“What we don’t need right now are stunts,” O’Rourke told about 300 people at a dance hall in Del Rio on Saturday — a message he repeated in earlier stops in both Laredo and Eagle Pass.

Houston Chronicle

Under Abbott the KKK stunts will continue because that is what they campaign on. They talk tough. They look tough. But like Ted Cruz they all are nothing but a bunch of Texas sized cowards.