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America has a ton of issues to address. A war against Iran, the cost of living, rising fuel prices, affordable housing, an out-of-control ICE, healthcare coverage, infrastructure, AI, data centers, heck, even explosive diarrhea. Nope. Subpoena Dr. Anthony Fauci.
What a sorry arse diversion attempt. Nobody cares unless you are a MAGA talking head. MAGA conveniently forgets who was at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue when COVID hit us.
Revisiting COVID isn’t going to lower the price of gasoline at the pump. Nobody wants to talk about the masks in the featured photo. Nope.
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It is happening folks. I have been talking about this. The damage has been done. See this from the Trib:
PHARR — Leaders within the construction industry in South Texas delivered a clear message to lawmakers: Stop the mass deportation of workers or risk losing in November.
During a gathering Wednesday hosted by the South Texas Builders Association and the American Business Immigration Coalition Action, industry leaders discussed possible solutions for immigrant workers. Lawmakers who don’t engage with their concerns or don’t support worker protections, the group warned, will lose their races in the November midterm elections.
The South Texas Builders Association had been for months raising the alarm on how immigration enforcement by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had scared immigrant workers from showing up to work sites, causing a labor shortage and a delay in construction projects.
After the death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a construction worker in Houston who was fatally shot by an ICE officer earlier this month, ICE’s targeting of immigrant laborers has once again come into focus, and now, the builders association is demanding worker protections, such as permits that would allow immigrants to work legally in the country.
“I want to send a clear warning to every political leader: If you don’t stop the worksite raids, the mass deportations, if you don’t pass the work permits for long-term, law-abiding immigrants, or citizens, or our Dreamers, you will lose,” said Massey Villarreal, CEO and president of Precision Task Group, a business solutions firm based in Houston.
Villarreal, a Republican, serves as co-chairman of the Comité de 100, a bipartisan group of Latino business leaders who advocate for immigration policies that enable border security alongside a pathway for legal status for workers.
He said that Latinos in Texas should take it personally when ICE targets people like Salgado Araujo because he said it’s an attack on the community.
“I won’t tolerate it, even in our own party,” he said.
Ronnie Cavazos, chairman of the South Texas Builders Association, said his own father was an immigrant and a hard worker. He imagined that Salgado Araujo, who was killed on his way to work, was similar and questioned why the community had supported a presidential administration that would shoot and kill a worker like him.
“Let’s be real, we voted for it,” Cavazos said. “So whose fault was it?”
He would take the blame, but he and the organization are paying attention now, he said, adding that the only way to change things is to vote.
“When I go to that ballot box in November, Lorenzo’s name is going to be in my mind,” Cavazos said.
Here is the entire Trib read: Republican South Texas construction owners decry ICE raids.
This has hit the Latino community the hardest. It is real. It is personal. It isn’t going to change over the next 13 weeks or so. MAGA will pay a price at the polls this November.
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Folks know I continue to support the Astros. I go to many games at Daikin Park. I buy peanuts, dollar dogs, Smart water, and Saint Arnold. I have not lost hope this season. We won last night and are now 55-55 for .500 ball. Wow.
We are a game behind in the AL West. We have today off, then the Rangers visit this weekend for a key series. Nice.