San Antonio Mayor in State of the Union Spotlight
He has been considered a star on the rise in most political circles, and this evening should only add to the up-and-comer status that San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro has enjoyed since taking the helm of the state’s second-largest city.
Castro confirmed to the Tribune on Monday that he received a formal invitation to attend President Obama’s State of the Union address, with a coveted seat in first lady Michelle Obama’s box — an area reserved for VIPs and other high-profile citizens.
“It’s a real honor as a mayor and as an American. Who wouldn’t ...
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Cliff McSparran via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Those boys are all big-eyed thinking they're John Fitzgerald Castro and Robert Francis Castro.
Luisa Inez Newton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
San Antonio adores its Mayor!
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one more kiss ass???????
gypsy314 ne
Castro should go back to Cuba or Mexico San Antonio traffic is the worst ever and the smell even worst. It is a city that supports illegal immigration and should be noted for that.
Obama is using this Castro fellow to keep the illegal aliens coming and registering them to vote. Remember this is were the judges that want to put the screws to the republican votes with the one sided maps the democrats cry race and use this race card to try and cheat the voters out of there votes. This Castro liberal is nothing more than a pawn in Obama board. Just like the new black panther trying to get into our Government system J W Price the bigot of Dallas is crying now since Dallas caught on to what was going on. Another pawn on the Obama board. Check it out for your self here is the link
http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/black-leader%E2%80%99s-past-sparks-controversy-012312
Remember Obama march with the new black panthers in Alabama before elected president.
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Obama Speech Brags About 3 Million New Jobs (Fails To Mention 3 Million New Foreign Work Permits)
By Roy Beck, Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 11:50 PM EST
Compared to the heavy-metal terror I used to feel listening to Pres. Bush's State of the Union immigratiion appeals, Pres. Obama's obligatory immigration section tonight was easy-listening music. The verses and chorus pushing for amnesties for illegal aliens were nearly identical to last year's speech and just didn't sound like he had a thought in the world that any of it could happen.
What really galled me, though, was Pres. Obama bragging about more than 3 million U.S. jobs created during the last 22 months.
That could have been good news for unemployed Americans. But during that same period, the Obama Administration issued more than 3 million work visas to new immigrants and other foreign workers (more than half of them permanent).
What is the point of all that talk in the speech about creating jobs when the federal government is importing so many new workers? Although the number of work permits issued is primarily controlled by Congress, Pres. Obama could be asking for reductions to give relief to all those Americans who have been unemployed for such long periods. He said nothing. And he gave no sign tonight of having the slightest interest in how immigration affects the labor market. In fact, he called again for "comprehensive immigration reform." All bills with that name have included big increases over the already-bloated immigration numbers.
But on our TV screens tonight, the Culprit in Chief in giving away the jobs to foreign workers was not the Commander in Chief giving the speech. Rather, it was the Speaker of the House sitting behind him.
The U.S. House of Representatives could easily pass several great bills that would immediately cut the foreign work permits to far below the job creation numbers. But Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) refuses to bring a single one to the floor for a vote.
Yes, Senate Majority Leader Reid (D-Nev.) and Pres. Obama would push back, but the Republican-majority House could put this issue of giving away most new jobs to immigrants into the national spotlight and force a showdown. Nearly every Republican sitting in that Chamber tonight has been part of a conspiracy of silence with Speaker Boehner to make sure that unemployed Americans don't get priority for new U.S. jobs.
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OBAMA`S IMMIGRATION POLICY RESULTS IN THREE MURDERS
The Obama administration has been ignoring federal immigration laws in failing to deport thousands of illegal aliens as they have been identified and detained. And now that defiance of federal law has resulted in the murder of three people, one of which was a 15 year old girl.
In 2006, 23 year old Kesler Dufrene from Haiti, was convicted of his second felony for burglary. A judge in Bradenton, Florida sentenced Dufrene to five years in prison. Since he was also an illegal immigrant, his felony conviction caused an immigration judge to order that he be deported back to Haiti upon his release from prison.
Dufrene was released from prison in September, 2010 and handed over to immigration officials. In October 2010 and under the directions from Obama who ordered a temporary halt to deportations to Haiti due to the massive earthquake that devastated the island nation, Dufrene was released from custody by immigration officials. Even though he was a two time felon and an illegal alien, Dufrene was free to walk the streets of Florida.
On January 2, 2011, relatives of 15 year old Ashley Crow were worried when they could not get anyone at her home to answer their calls, so they notified police. When the police arrived, they found Ashley, 25 year old Harlen Peralta and 35 year old Israel Rincon shot to death. Peralta and Rincon rented an attached efficiency apartment from Ashley’s mother, Audrey Hansack.
Police were finally able to link Dufrene to the crime and two and a half weeks after the murders, they went to arrest him. Manatee County sheriff’s deputies had Dufrene corned and rather than go back to prison, he turned his gun on himself and took his own life.
Even though police had Dufrene’s DNA on the rifle used at the shooting and cell phone tracking technology linking him to the murders, police are baffled as to the motive for the crime. Dufrene had no connections with the victims or ever the North Miami area.
The real crime here is that Ashley and the two renters would still be alive today had President Obama obeyed the federal immigration laws and not placed a ban on deportations. Ironically, the ban on deportation to Haiti was lifted two weeks after the murders took place.
Federal immigration laws say that a foreign national cannot be held in immigration detention more than six month. At the time of the President’s deportation ban, no one had any idea when it might be lifted, thus making any deportation date as unforeseeable and according to ICE officials, “Under binding Supreme Court precedent, ICE’s authority to detain any individual is limited when the removal of that individual is not likely in the reasonably foreseeable future,” so Dufrene was freed. In reality, he should have been detained for a minimum of 6 months, which was allowable by law, in case the deportation ban would be lifted in time, which as it turns out, it was.
Had the laws been followed, Dufrene would never have been set free and Ashley would still have her dreams set on law school and becoming a lawyer. The blood of these three people and countless other rest squarely in the hands of President Obama and the guidelines he set for the immigration officials.
Read more: Obama’s Immigration Policy Results in Three Murders http://godfatherpolitics.com/3305/obamas-immigration-policy-results-in-three-murders/#ixzz1kUrD30cO