While the word “alien” has been used to refer to foreign nationals in the U.S. for more than 220 years, the term dehumanizes immigrants and should be stripped from federal law, according to Rep. Joaquin Castro (R-TX). He’s introduced a bill to replace “alien” with “foreign national” and “illegal alien” with “undocumented foreign national” in federal law and executive agency documents.
A Texas Jewish community was rocked by what law enforcement is investigating as a hate crime. Unmistakable widespread anti-Semitic vandalism defaced a subdivision and the neighboring Orthodox synagogue, tagging property with hateful ethnic slurs, curse words, “KKK,” and worse.
San Antonio, Texas, is poised to become one of the largest police departments in the nation using body cameras, or ‘body cams’ as they are now being called. Body cams are video recorders that are worn on the officers’ uniform and records every minute of every shift.
The confluence of a Supreme Court that decides it has the power to legislate, a pro-active politicized bureaucracy at HUD that is betting the court will help it end-run Congress, and a Congress that allows itself to be manipulated by allowing its own independent agency to usurp its legislative function confirms that the federal government in its entirety has now merely become yet another arm of the Democratic Party.
Sunday, on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Congressman Joaquin Castro (D-TX) said, “a lot of the hysteria that you see now about illegal immigration,” is being caused by right wing politicians like Donald Trump “playing to a very angry base of
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” host Andrea Mitchell mistakenly identified her guest Rep. Joaquín Castro (D-TX) as having a “Cuban-American background” in her setup for a question about U.S.-Cuba relations. “[W]e’ll talk politics but I want to talk
Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) slammed Texas Republican leaders on Wednesday for what he claimed was their “touchdown dance” celebrating Judge Andrew Hanen’s temporary injunction against President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty.
As House leaders tried to corral votes for the Obama-Boehner cromnibus Thursday afternoon, a number of congressional staffers walked out on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and put their hands in the air. The group of about 140 staffers offered
After President Barack Obama failed to visit the border on recent fundraising trips to Texas and California, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) said on Friday that he hopes Obama could prioritize a visit to the border to see the crisis firsthand.
After reports indicated that Texas Governor Rick Perry was preparing to deploy National Guard troops to the border, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) suggested Perry should send the Red Cross instead. On Sunday evening, Castro implied the border was secure because
Though the Obama administration has insisted that illegal immigrant children from Central America are flooding across the border primarily to escape rampant violence, a leaked intelligence report concludes that is not necessarily the case, especially because the murder rate in El
On Sunday, three more Democrats said President Barack Obama should go to the border to see the illegal immigration crisis first hand after Obama refused to visit the border while attending three fundraisers in Texas last week. Rep. Luis Gutierrez
DALLAS, Texas–Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) recently introduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives to transform his brother Julian’s mayoral signature education plan Pre-K for SA (San Antonio) into Pre-K for USA. The Pre-K for USA Act would allow
Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX), who is seen as one of the rising stars in his party, believes some of the illegal immigrant children flooding across the border from Central America should be considered for asylum. “I think the children who
On Monday, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) introduced an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would allow DREAMers who received temporary amnesty under President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action plan to become eligible to apply to U.S. military academies.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) called Rep. Steve King (R-IA) an “asshole” to Democrats last year after King said that not all illegal immigrant “DREAMers” are valedictorians, and some, “with calves the size of cantaloupes,” are known drug smugglers. In
Barack Obama, shifting the American public’s focus away from Obamacare toward a debate on income inequality, is launching his Housing and Urban Development (HUD) program titled “Promise Zones,” which entails using government largess to give tax incentives and grants to
In response to Texas Democrat Joaquin Castro: Cruz Can’t Be President: This is coming from one of the biggerst amigos of the racist La-Raza faction of the Demoratic Party. When you dig a bit into the Castro’s familia, their mama
Gazing into his crystal ball, left wing Congressman Joaquin Castro (D-TX) asserted Friday that Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) “can’t be president.” Castro, whose twin brother Julian is the Democratic mayor of San Antonio and considered to have national political ambitions
