Last week, the County of El Paso voted to sue the State of Texas over SB4, the so-called sanctuary cities legislation, recently enacted by Texas. The Texas bill makes it a Class A misdemeanor if any local law enforcement agent does not cooperate with federal agents in detaining undocumented immigrants for federal prosecution. The Texas […]
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Local Blogosphere Proves Nothing Changed
This is for those of you that are still upset with my lack of coverage of the local El Paso political scene during the recent municipal races. Even if I could have motived myself to rewrite much of the same commentary, or create new data graphs of where the political money is coming from, the […]
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RumpToons No: 29
Here is RumpToons No: 29. I hope you enjoy it. This one was very easy to make. Donald Trump just gives me too much material to work with.
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Again, The Wall Will Not be Built
Unless you are living under a rock then you likely know that a special counsel was appointed on Wednesday to investigate allegations of Russian influence over the 2016 election. Hold you pitchforks for a moment and note that I wrote that the special counsel will investigate allegations of Russian interference. Like everyone else, I do […]
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The Hispanic and Mexican Disconnect
One of the most frustrating aspects of trying to correct the false narratives about México is the wrongly used term: Mexicans – for people who are U.S. citizens but are of Hispanic, or Latino heritage. The word Mexican is consistently used interchangeably to identify U.S. citizens of Mexican descent and those who are Mexican citizens. […]
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Watergate and Mexico
The ongoing Donald Trump controversies about the Russian election interference and the firing of FBI directory, James Comey, has led many to compare the Watergate controversy to Trump’s latest activities. Trump’s Tweet about “tapes” has raised the specter of another Watergate nexus. México remains a target of Donald Trump. Contrary to Trump and his surrogates, […]
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Trump Bluffs on NAFTA
In late April, various rumors of a draft memorandum from the Donald Trump administration notifying Congress that the United States intended to withdraw from NAFTA began to appear. Then on April 27, 2017, Donald Trump told the nation that personal calls from the leaders of Canada and México convinced him to renegotiate NAFTA, rather than […]
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Kentucky Derby Proves Immigrants Are Needed for the Country
Last week we considered the iconic car manufacturer, Tesla, having to go to México to bolster its engineering teams. Tesla demonstrated the fallacy that Mexican immigrants are only menial laborers taking jobs away from U.S. workers. The issue of a shortage of U.S. engineers is not about quantity, as many times assumed, but rather it […]
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The One Thing No One is Talking About on the Firing of Comey
Almost all of you have been talking about the sudden firing of James Comey as the director of the FBI. Both sides, those that support Donald Trump and those that dislike him, remain focused on the appropriateness of Trump firing his FBI director. The fact remains that James Comey works at the pleasure of Trump, […]