Immigrants
This is the headline of today’s Chron E-Board take:
Houston’s massive pro-immigrant protest sent a message: ‘We will not be intimidated’
Here is how it starts:
No one is wearing pink “pussyhats” this time around. College educated liberals have been chastened by working class voters who are leaving the Democratic party in droves. “We have no coherent message,” U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a Dallas Democrat, told the New York Times. Donald Trump’s return to the White House and his barrage of executive orders have left the opposition without words.
Until now.
On Sunday, protests against Trump’s deportations erupted in California and Texas. Activists blocked a highway in Los Angeles. Hundreds rallied outside Dallas City Hall. In Conroe — not exactly a historic hotbed of left-wing activism — five people including a 14-year-old were arrested. In Houston, thousands marched from Montrose through the oak-canopied streets near Rice University to Hermann Park where they took over the traffic circle with the statue of Sam Houston at its center. Cars and light rail trains came to a standstill. Returning to Montrose, protesters crowded bridge after bridge after bridge over I-59: an astonishing sight in a city not used to large protests, especially by Latinos.
The mood was euphoric, and the protesters’ message simple: we will not be intimidated.
“I’m fighting for my family,” said Pedro Daniel Andrade, a 25-year-old graduate of Texas A&M Kingsville and a first-generation Mexican American born and raised in Houston. He said he earns a good income working in optometry and is living his single mother’s American dream. Now, however, his relatives are afraid to go to work because they fear deportation.
Here is the entire E-Board take: In Houston immigration protest, Latinos demand to be heard.
Let’s be clear. These were pro-immigrant rights group leading the protests. Congressional Democrats have been weak on pro-immigrant messaging. Congressional Democrats have let the pro-mass deportation MAGA voices go unchecked. Democrats need to talk about the value of immigration to our economic growth. It is way past time to push back hard.
The featured photo is today’s front page of the Chron.
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This is Super Bowl Week. This will be the 11th time New Orleans has served as the host city. H-Town has hosted three times. The NFL Commissioner said yesterday that when the NFL gets an international NFL franchise, the Super Bowl will follow, meaning the Super Bowl could be played in London or Berlin. I don’t know if America could handle that.
Next year’s Super Bowl will be held at Levi Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
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My Beatles wall calendar for the month of February is the “Can’t Buy Me Love” and “You Can’t Do That” 45 record sleeve with the four in their famous collarless suits from 1964. The other Beatles calendar looks like it came from the same photo shoot in a different pose but wearing the same suits.
