Southern Republican Senator Jeff Sessions is insulting our intelligence.

Either he thinks we are a bunch of dumb Messicans who don’t know math — or, he is hoping to get away with spewing myths about legal immigration reform.

For instance, did you know that Sessions supported welfare for large oil companies that wastes BILLION$ of our American tax dollars?

According to Oil Change Int’l:  In the United States, credible estimates of annual fossil fuel subsidies range from $10 billion to $52 billion annually, while even efforts to remove small portions of those subsidies have been defeated in Congress.  Download your own pdf copy here.

Follow the money …  Jeff Sessions received approximately $286.5 K from Energy & Natural Resources contributors.

Ask Jeff Sessions: Why Are We Subsidizing Oil Companies?

 

It is disingenuous for Sessions to expose a ‘flawed’ bill when we all know the immigration system is broken and there is a clear need for LEGAL IMMIGRATION REFORM.

A healthy and legal immigration solution will secure our borders, create a safer North American Continent and promote a stronger relationship with our contiguous neighbors.  Enforcement-only initiatives promote a situation that emulates the failed days of Prohibition, which serves only to encourage the underground labor market.  Our government needs the additional tax revenues that new immigrants generate in order to sustain the burgeoning entitlement programs baby boomers require as they continue to retire.  By developing a reasonable legal immigration plan, we create a system where immigrants share American tax burdens as they continue to contribute millions of dollars into our tax coffers.  New immigrants sharing our tax burdens will help discourage our government from increasing taxes, because under the current system these entitlement programs will drain all federal revenues within 15 years.

We’ve been through this before.  It is much easier for politicians to blame immigrants who can’t defend themselves for our economic situation.  In fact, we ought to support common sense solutions, and we ought to not waste billions on oil welfare subsidies.

Economic think tank, CATO Institute writes:

“According to estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, there are 3.1 related jobs off the farm for every job on the farm. Eliminating the on-farm jobs would put at risk many more jobs paying middle-class wages and employing native-born American workers.”

I believe in giving credit where credit is due.

As a Mexican-American, I am glad the Cuban-American Senator Marco Rubio is denouncing the Heritage Immigration Study.  We are glad to see this because Kris Kobach was the legal architect of Arizona’s SB1070, and also a non staff member at The Heritage Foundation.

Florida’s Sen Rubio stated:

“Their argument is based on a single premise, which I think is flawed,” Rubio told reporters. “That is these people are disproportionately poor because they have no education and they will be poor for the rest of their lives in the U.S. Quite frankly that’s not the immigration experience in the U.S. That’s certainly not my family’s experience in the U.S. The folks described in that report are my family. My mother and dad didn’t graduate high school and I would not say they were a burden on the United States…My parents were a lot better off 25 years after they emigrated here than they were when they first got here. And their children certainly have been. I still think we’re that country. And I still think we can be that country and even more in the future, so I guess I just have a lot more belief in the future of the country than some of the folks that helped prepare [the report].”

Rubio is from Florida showing leadership while we are seeing the Texas Cuban-American Senator Ted Cruz still missing in action

with regard to the Gang of 8 comprehensive immigration reform that will fix the clearly broken immigration system.  Did you know that Texas shares 64% of the southern border with Mexico yet there is no leadership from Cruz?

Why isn’t Cuban-American Ted Cruz showing CIR leadership in his own State that is home to millions and millions of Mexican-Americans?!

Almost half of the Texas population is of Mexican descent, yet the Cuban – American Senator Ted Cruz doesn’t seem to care to support the Gang of 8 legal immigration fix.

Sen. Ted Cruz who is the son of a Cuban immigrant has family in the United States that have migrated to our Country and have benefited from privileged Cuban amnesty via the Cuban Adjustment Act.

You will hear Cruz try to play your heart strings when he tells a (pretend sob story) on how his daddy came to the States with $100 bucks sown into his underwear.

According to FOX NEWS:

Cruz’s father Rafael is a pastor outside Dallas. He fought with Fidel Castro’s rebels in Cuba before Castro took power and eventually embraced communism, and the elder Cruz fled to the U.S. with nothing but $100 sowed into his underwear.

But according to the inflation calculator, $100.00 back then is equivalent to $826.21 today.  That is a whole helluva lot more money than the dying immigrant crossing the desert comes here with.  Many immigrants crossing the desert die of dehydration.

 

The world’s first Jewish – Chicano Radio Show slams  Andrew Thomas (who wants to run for Arizona governor), Maricopa County Counselor Bill Montgomery, and Kris Kobach who are all part of the same anti-immigrant Klan.

Andrew Thomas was disbarred / suspended for 6 months in light of his corruption recently — and ultimately was made to retake the bar exam.  Bill Montgomery was endorsed by the corrupt Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Lou and Bobby Hernandez point out to their audience which local organizations are and are not supporting him.  The show also discusses Kris Kobach who is  the anti-immigrant and legal architect of SB 1070, and how Kobach continues to waste millions of dollars on frivolous lawsuits across the country an leaving the towns to foot the bill.   Kobach is now attacking the DACA process that has helped thousands of talented DREAM Act-like students we need in our country.

Tun in to the Phoenix talkback Radio Show –  April 28, 2013 (Show #5)!

IN THE FIRST HALF: Lou and Bobby broach the week’s biggest news, that Kris Kobach filed suit in Texas against Obama’s DACA program, disgraced and delusional former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas has declared himself a candidate for Governor, and; Bill Montgomery has been creating alliances with local organizations that really need to denounce his prosecutorial disrespect of the Undocumented.
IN THE SECOND HALF: Gail, the Bohemian Activist and Viva, a local Chicano Citizen, join in on a panel discussion about Andrew Thomas, Bill Montgomery, and the general state of politics in Arizona. Belle calls in. (This show originated out of KFNX Studios, Phoenix, Arizona, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM, on April 28, 2013)

 

Meet District Judge Reed O’Connor, a federal judge in Texas who was appointed by former President George W. Bush in 2007.  You can learn more about him in the Robing Room (a place where judges are judged), and you will find that O’Conner is somewhat sub-standard receiving only a 4.1 grade out of 10.  Yesterday he indicated he was likely to block President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) process.

According to David Leopold — past President of AILA: “…the order, written by Judge Reed O’Connor, came in a lawsuit challenging DACA and prosecutorial discretion filed by nativist lawyer and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach on behalf of ICE Union Boss Christopher Crane. The judge found that the DACA process, which gives eligible DREAMERs a temporary reprieve from deportation, likely, violates the law…”

What are the implications of Judge O’Conner blocking the DACA process?

For starters — we know that Mexican-Americans are already livid with Texas Republican lawmakers who are trying to implement anti-Latino laws, and it is creating quite the stir — particularly in south Texas.

2016 Presidential hopeful via  Jeb Bush already has concerns with regard to Texas.

Florida Governor Jeb Bush tells Joe Hagan of New York magazine: “It’s a math question. Four years from now, Texas is going to be a so-called blue state. Imagine Texas as a blue state, how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate.”

Hagan starts the article for New York magazine with this idea that  Texas’ rapidly changing demographic will unfavorably affect the Republican party.  He writes:

“Sitting down across from me, [Jeb] assumes his role as party Cassandra, warning of the day when the Republicans’ failure to tap an exploding Hispanic population will cripple its chances at reclaiming power—starting in Texas, the family seat of the House of Bush.”

DREAM Act students are well educated students who know no other way except the American way.  They have pledged allegiance to our United States flag, and they want to contribute their much needed talents and taxes that could only ease the burdens of existing American tax payers.

If this Texas Judge blocks the DACA process, there will be a Mexican-American / Latin backlash like never before.  And the backlash will occur because the Republican National Committee failed to control the bigotry that stinks amongst their political ranks.  Nativist Republicans like Kansas Sec. of State Kris Kobach are destroying the Republican Party with their bigotry faster than a raging sagebrush  fire that sits on top of a Texas oil field.

The burning questions are:

Why are the birthers and nativists using a plaintiff who lives in the State of Utah?  Why didn’t Kobach choose Utah to submit his lawsuit.  Why Texas?   Plaintiff Christopher L. Crane is an ICE Deportation Officer who earns his salary by detaining and deportingimmigrants.  

David A. Martin makes an interesting observation with regard to Kansas Sec. of State in the Yale Law Journal:

The suit relies primarily on a superficially attractive and syllogistically neat statutory theory that Kobach first trumpeted in TV appearances and op-eds shortly after DACA was announced in June.⁶ Under Kobach’s theory, virtually every time an ICE agent encounters unauthorized aliens, he or she has a duty under federal law—with which no supervisor can interfere—to place the aliens into formal removal proceedings. The same argument has also been picked up by congressional opponents of DACA.⁷ But the argument’s central reasoning is legally erroneous. The theory takes out of context a provision Congress enacted in 1996, marries it with a misunderstanding of two provisions that have been in place for decades, and ignores the actual practice under those provisions.  READ MORE>>>

I do not know the final outcome with regard to this Texas case (where the plaintiff lives in the State of Utah), but I do know that there will be grave political consequences and unprecedented political collateral damage for the Republican Party once more and more Mexican-Americans find out that this judge was appointed by a former Republican President of the brother (via Jeb Bush) who wants to run for President in 2016.

Where is the leadership of RNC Chairman Reince Preibus?  Meanwhile, “Hispanic” / Cuban Republican Texas Senator Cruz is still missing in action with regard to legal immigration reform even though Texas shares 64% of the border with our trade ally and neighboring country of Mexico.

Incredible isn’t it?

 

From Bloomberg BusinessWeek:

    A court challenge by federal immigration agents seeking to block President Barack Obama’s deferred-deportation initiative will probably succeed, a judge said.  U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in Dallas today put off his own decision on whether to grant the request for a preliminary injunction by 10 U.S. Immigration and Customs agents. He asked both sides to file additional arguments no later than May 6.

Announced by Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano last year, the directive gives agents the ability to defer action on people unlawfully in the U.S. if they came to the country under the age of 16, are in school or have obtained a high school diploma, haven’t been convicted of a felony, significant misdemeanor or multiple misdemeanors, and aren’t a threat to public safety or national security.

Shirl Mora James, President of Somos Independents who is a Civil Rights and Immigration lawyer believes the Texas case is influenced by xenophobia.

It is a special kind of xenophobia to drive lawsuits across the nation directed against mainly brown Spanish speaking immigrants, I seriously wonder if Kobach would be suing Napolitano in Texas, if the immigrants in question were blonde and blue-eyed!

My sentiments exactly.

In fact, I am waiting for media to go to the Texas “Hispanic” / Cuban Republican Senator Ted Cruz who has had family benefit from the Cuban privileged amnesty.  Where is Cruz at?  Just because he is of Cuban descent means nothing to me.  The majority of his constituents are of Mexican descent and last time I checked — Mexican-Americans make up almost 70% of the Latino population pie.

Keep in mind that people at one point and time in our history were fighting to keep Cuban immigrant Elian Gonzalez in our Nation, but when one of our own DREAM Act kids via  Texas Joaquin Luna commits suicide — those same people are nowhere to be found.

Kris Kobach has a history, too, with being affiliated to groups who have white nationalist ties to the John Tanton Network.

From the Southern Poverty Law Center on Kobach:

Just in from David Leopold –  the past national president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) the Washington, DC-based premier bar association for immigration lawyers and professors in the US. He has served as AILA’s general counsel and the association’s liaison to the Department of Homeland Security’s key enforcement agencies.

The case is Crane v. Napolitano, 3:12-cv-03247, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas (Dallas).

From Bloomberg BusinessWeek

A court challenge by federal immigration agents seeking to block President Barack Obama’s deferred-deportation initiative will probably succeed, a judge said.

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in Dallas today put off his own decision on whether to grant the request for a preliminary injunction by 10 U.S. Immigration and Customs agents. He asked both sides to file additional arguments no later than May 6.

Announced by Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano last year, the directive gives agents the ability to defer action on people unlawfully in the U.S. if they came to the country under the age of 16, are in school or have obtained a high school diploma, haven’t been convicted of a felony, significant misdemeanor or multiple misdemeanors, and aren’t a threat to public safety or national security.

“The court finds that DHS does not have discretion to refuse to initiate removal proceedings” when the requirements for deportation under a federal statute are met, O’Connor said today in a 38-page decision, referring to the Department of Homeland Security.

Still, the judge said he can’t decide the case based on the arguments he’s heard so far.

“Accordingly, the court hereby defers ruling on the plaintiffs’ application for preliminary injunction until the parties have submitted additional briefing,” O’Connor said.

Border Security

The administration’s “Deferred Action” initiative, announced in June, was created with the intent of shifting immigration agency focus toward border security and the removal of dangerous people.

“This is not amnesty, this is not immunity,” Obama said at the time. “This is not a path to citizenship, it’s not a permanent fix.” Deferral, if conferred, is valid for two years, during which the person may obtain authorization for employment, and can be renewed, according to the ICE website.

The case was filed by attorney Kris Kobach, who also serves as Kansas Secretary of State and is a national Republican Party adviser. Lead plaintiff Christopher L. Crane is president of the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council, a 7,600- member federal immigration agents’ union.

“Officers are applying the directive to people detained in jails, not kids in school,” Crane testified at the April 8 hearing. “It is now the story in the jails for aliens to use to avoid arrest and deportation.”

Adam Kirschner, a lawyer for the Justice Department, told O’Connor at the hearing the case was, in reality, an employment dispute and that the agents can’t demonstrate they’ve been harmed. “These agents do not like the way the agency has prioritized the use of its resources,” he said.

“The executive cannot remove 11 million people,” Kirchner said of the branch of the U.S. government led by Obama. “The executive has authority to exercise its discretion.”

The case is Crane v. Napolitano, 3:12-cv-03247, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas (Dallas).

To contact the reporter on this story: Andrew Harris in the Chicago federal courthouse at

aharris16@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Michael Hytha at mhytha@bloomberg.net

The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) has been lying to the American People about “amnesty” as it relates to the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013.  Most Americans understand that the immigration system has been broken for decades and it is disingenuous for them to call the legal immigration plan by the Gang of 8 as “amnesty.”

FAIR has been classified by the SPLC as a known hate group and they state:

At the center of the Tanton web is the nonprofit Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the most important organization fueling the backlash against immigration.Founded by Tanton in 1979, FAIR has long been marked by anti-Latino and anti-Catholic attitudes. It has mixed this bigotry with a fondness for eugenics, the idea of breeding better humans discredited by its Nazi associations. It has accepted $1.2 million from an infamous, racist eugenics foundation. It has employed officials in key positions who are also members of white supremacist groups. Recently, it has promoted racist conspiracy theories about Mexico’s secret designs on the American Southwest and an alternative theory alleging secret plans to merge the United States, Mexico and Canada. …  Tanton has for decades been at the heart of the white nationalist scene. He has corresponded with Holocaust deniers, former Klan lawyers and the leading white nationalist thinkers of the era. He introduced key FAIR leaders to the president of the Pioneer Fund, a white supremacist group set up to encourage “race betterment,” at a 1997 meeting at a private club. He wrote a major funder to encourage her to read the work of a radical anti-Semitic professor — to “give you a new understanding of the Jewish outlook on life” — and suggested that the entire FAIR board discuss the professor’s theories on the Jews. He practically worshipped a principal architect of the Immigration Act of 1924 (instituting a national origin quota system and barring Asian immigration), a rabid anti-Semite whose pro-Nazi American Coalition of Patriotic Societies was indicted for sedition in 1942.

Since immigration is broken, it is imperative that we find reasonable legal solutions that garner  bipartisanship support from both Republicans and Democrats.

As a former bomb dog handler and veteran of the United States Air Force, I want to underscore that the 2013 Legal immigration reform bill is a major step forward in securing our Nation because only after everyone is registered and documented will we know who is in our Nation and where we can find them. We know that once we fix the broken immigration system, and once we document all immigrants — then they can feel safe to help law enforcement agencies to target criminal activity without the fear of deportation when they report suspicious activity to the law enforcement authorities. Therefore, bringing the immigrants out of the shadows will only strengthen our Nation’s security.

The great and former Republican Ronald Reagan gave amnesty, while  the 2013 bipartisanship Act does not.  The 2013 immigration plan is a legal vehicle and a means to reform what has been broken.  Furthermore, and more importantly … the only immigrants who are given privileged amnesty are the Cuban immigrants under the Cuban Adjustment Act where Cuban immigrants receive government benefits once their wet-foot reaches dry-land. Why hasn’t FAIR addressed the privileged Cuban amnesty if they are really against amnesty?  Mexican immigrants do not receive government benefits that Cuban immigrants receive.

It is clear that the immigration system is broken and this is why a bipartisanship effort is needed in order to fix the immigration system via a legal immigration plan.  It appears FAIR does not offer a reasonable policy solution to fixing what is broken because they really are xenophobes.

 

 

This information has been confirmed.  According to David Nakamura of the WAPOST:

Last Friday we had a record release party for an immigration CD that addresses the need for immigration reform, the DREAM Act, and getting out the Mexican-American / Latino vote.  The CD link will be made available soon for people to buy it online.   Arizona State Representative Martin Quezada delivered a great message to the youth, college students and art enthusiasts at the downtown First Friday art walk.

A portion of our CD sales will go to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) students since they have to approximately $575.00 for documentation fees + attorney fees, and the other portion of our CD sales will go to Mexican-American artists who helped contribute their talents to this important message.

We believe in communicating through art and music.  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once penned: “Music is the universal language of mankind — poetry their universal pastime and delight.”   Our goal is to communicate through music with regard to the humanitarian aspect of immigration.  Mexicans and other immigrants are not asking for a handout – they are seeking earned legal immigration reform.  Chicanos and American citizens are here to push the American Dream, and we know that when our Nation continues to be a Beacon and a light to the Globe – blessings come our way.

 

 

I grew increasingly attentive when the musician spoke of Mark Twain.

Logic Ali had a grandfather who was well known in both the United States and Mexico for being a welterweight boxer in the 1950’s and went on to be one of the first Mexican champions in our Nation. His mother was born in Mexico and his father was born in the United States.  Born in California, Logic Ali grew up in Los Angeles and later attended college at UCLA.  He dropped out of college during his senior year with only 8 classes to go because he wanted to pursue music.  Instinct told him he would end up being a teacher if he graduated so he decided to pursue his dream in music instead.

Logic Ali has been creating music since 15 years of age.  His inspiration comes from the likes of (not limited to) Jim Morrison, The Doors, Beatles, Al Green to the Wu-Tang Clan. His favorite instrument is the key board and he can make approximately 10-15 songs every 2-3 days.   His goal is to become one of the greats as a  Hip Hop DJ/Producer.  He wants to help bring Hip Hop to its roots by taking all the great artists, using 2 turn tables and looping vinyl records while putting a twist from every genre imaginable and adding bass to it.

Logic Ali wrote songs about life at 16 but it was not enough in the creative outlet he wanted to dive into.  He is involved in a number of projects using different pseudonyms allowing him to think differently and out of the box as he dives deeper into the genre he is pursuing.  There are no rules in music, and his goal is to write from many different perspectives and view points other people may have.   Some writers regularly write in more than one genre and they use different pen names for each.  According to the Mark Twain Institute, “Twain used different pen names (pseudonyms or “noms de plume”) before deciding on “Mark Twain”. He signed humorous and imaginative sketches “Josh” until 1863. Additionally, he used the pen name “Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass” for a series of humorous letters.”

Very few appearances are made by Logic Ali, but he will be making an appearance on April 5, 2013, during First Friday in Phoenix where thousands of people will be visiting art galleries and enjoying culture.  He will also be playing with “Vas Aver” – a band that capitalizes on love songs and integrating the female audience.  Vas Aver includes Jonny Diina, a guitarist, co-vocalist and producer while Logic Ali is the rapper/producer component.

Logic Ali featuring Adolfo Salazar created a brand new song for the Tequila Party Immigration CD called “We’re All Neighbors Sin Papeles” and it is about how some people and politicians hate our neighbors to the south. The inspiration behind this track is Joaquin Luna and the DREAM Act. Adolfo Salazar was deeply affected by Joaquin Luna’s suicide so he helped the grieving family with their funeral expenses.  DREAM Act student, Joaquin Luna, was one of ours who  took his life because he felt as an undocumented immigrant he had nowhere to go. He relied and was hoping for the passage of the DREAM Act in December 2010 that could have been passed with only a handful more Senate votes.

Perhaps there is a little bit of Mark Twain in DJ Rapper/Producer Logic Ali featuring DJ/Producer Adolfo Salazar – after all, Twain once wrote that “slavery dehumanized the slave and made monsters of the slave owner” in that era.  Now we see songs being written in the current era with regard to the dehumanization of immigrants and the horrible consequences of it.

Logic Ali is an artist to follow with regard to the songs he writes bringing about social awareness.