The Midday Brief: Top Texas Headlines for May 6, 2011
Your afternoon reading:
- "President Barack Obama, under increasing pressure from Latino Democrats to deliver on a major campaign promise, is planning to deliver a speech on immigration next Tuesday in El Paso." — Obama to deliver speech on immigration Tuesday in El Paso, Texas on the Potomac
- "Business in the Texas Senate has come to a standstill over negotiations to bring up the controversial school-finance bill this afternoon." — Senate on hold over school-finance bill, Postcards
- "Doctors in Texas would be able to dispense prescription drugs for the first time in about 30 years under a bill approved this morning by the ...
Comments (7)
Gritsforbreakfast
Leaving aside for a moment the merits, why must I learn from a blog and not from y'all that the Trib was the subject of a libel suit from a former TX Supreme Court candidate?
http://www.scotxblog.com/news-and-links/former-scotx-candidate-rick-green-sues-his-detractors-for-libel-alleged-to-have-caused-his-defeat/
If y'all previously reported this (and it just doesn't come up in search results), my apologies. But the news is the news, even when you is the news.
Rocky Johnson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
sorry ... I stand with Arizona on this one
Evan Smith
Grits, Evan Smith here. No, we haven't published anything about it. That call was mine, for the simple reason that we cannot comment on pending litigation, and that includes (to me) writing about it.
Tim Tukaram Spotswood via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I also stand with Arizona, and I'm not sorry! :P
Brittanicus
OBAMA INSISTING ON IMMIGRATION AMNESTY?
Since the 1986 Immigration Control and Reform Act those in power has lied to the US people? Just sufficient laws have been passed, to give the impression that President Obama, George Bush or back to Ronald Reagan, promised to secure fully the border. That they would enforce immigration laws, but candidly nothing serious as ever been accomplished? We need to revisit President Linden B. Johnson, Immigration Restriction Act of 1921 policy “Quotas System”, so only certain amounts of foreign nationals are given entry visas. Its requirements were Numerical limits on immigration from Europe and the use of a Quota system for establishing those limitations. Similar legislation had been advanced several times previously without success. Recommencement of immigration and the widespread unemployment that followed the end of World War One demanded change, lending strength to the anti-immigration movement. In 1965, the American people were guaranteed that immigration would never exceed its then low level of 250,000 annually. Currently, it is at an all-time high of over a million a year and still rising.
Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, a veiled Liberal progressive killed this law, attributing to the 20 million or more who have settled in this country today. You cannot trust any administration, the Liberal press, the liberal Extremists in Academia or any of the open border quasi organization, such as The Council of Foreign Relations. These organizations are for open borders, although we have upwards to 10 million US citizens and resident without a job. Leftists and equivalents all have their own agenda's and Obama and his Leftist administration wants citizenship for the invaders, who stole into our country. There has been so much fraud within work visa programs, the agricultural Guest Worker and fabricated paperwork for skilled immigrants who have come here. The 1986 immigration bill has been a failure, but not because it’s—BROKEN--but because the laws were never enforced.
The laws enacted, were intentionally made to be broken, underfunded still leaving access to cheap labor for Republicans and more votes for liberals and Democrats; legal or illegal. Ted Kennedy played on the sympathy of American Society, when he ardently promised in 1986, that there would never be another--AMNESTY. E-Verify was nearly killed by Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), Secure Communities is not mandatory and the true 2006 Secure Fence Act, less than a 6 months later Texas Republican Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn pushed for "flexibility to choose other options instead of fencing, if needed." Politicians obdurately vowed to keep America safe. The law specifically called for "at least 2 layers of reinforced fencing, topped with concertina barbed razor wire with the installation of additional physical barriers, patrol roads, lighting, cameras and sensors" at five exact areas of border totaling approximately 700 miles.
The revolution that is the TEA PARTY promises no citizenship for illegal aliens, or any of the clandestine Amnesties of which there has been six since 2004. The Tea Party leadership will vote out Pro-Amnesty law, which includes Sanctuary City ordinances and push in opposition to such bills as the dream Act, Chain Migration and any Immigration reform bills. US Senator Rand Paul, a TEA PARTY activist in a letter to me opposes any citizenship for illegal aliens. He also said, “He didn’t think American taxpayers should be forced to pay for welfare, medical care or other expenses. If you are legally arrived in America you have an opportunity to join the TEA PARTY, as they are awaiting you to stop more of your taxes being taken to pay for illegal aliens. So much more interesting facts to be found at NumbersUSA, that connects you with the truth about the illegal alien invasion.
Rick Chafey via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Part of the reason our economy is tanking is the lack of affordable labor. I'd sooner kick Arizonans out of Texas than Mexicans.
Gritsforbreakfast
With respect, Evan, "cannot comment on pending litigation" is a choice, not a law or some hard and fast requirement based on anything but self-interest (i.e., you don't want to lose the lawsuit by speaking out of turn). Y'all ask people to comment on pending litigation all the time. It's one thing not to dive into the details, perhaps another to not tell your readers about it at all. Your call, but IMO the optics aren't great.