With the national spotlight set on possible legislation to reform our immigration policies including the bipartisan eight-senator coalition's recommendations and the push by President Barack Obama to make it a priority of his second term, Cameron County Judge Carlos Cascos has pushed through a resolution encouraging immigration reform.During this morning's meeting of the Cameron County Commissioners Court, he pushed through a resolution supporting the movement toward reform.
Coming on the heels of having at least two women who were immigrants running for their parties' nomination (Republican and Democrat) for the U.S. Congress, the Cascos resolution takes on a decidedly South Texas character.
Cascos, himself a naturalized citizen, has spoken in the past about the hurdles before immigrants to this country. It is a testament to these immigrants, he has said to schoolchildren, that they succeed and become productive citizens and leaders here, in their adopted land of opportunity.The resolution states that the commissioners court "recognizes the dignity of all its immigrant residents, regardless of immigration status, and appreciates the importance of their many contributions to the social, cultural, and economic life in the Rio Grande Valley through their dreams, traditions, industriousness and helping to build and develop the rich and welcoming character of the Rio Grande Valley.
The resolution continues saying that: "the (court) acknowledges that immigrants make important contributions to the economies and cultures of the United States and Mexico; and according to the Texas State Comptroller, add at least $400 million to the State of Texas' economy each year, thereby playing a vital role in our state and local economies.
"The (court) realizes the failure of our national government's present immigration policies cause great anguish to the county residents who daily experience the tragedy of families divided by ineffective laws designed for the social realities of 100 years ago."The (court) has been, and remains, committed to the protection of civil rights, liberties, and security for all peoples as expressed in the United States and Texas Constitutions.
"The (court)...is firmly committed to the citizens' efforts to obtain a comprehensive and humane reform of this nations' immigration's laws, and this court agrees to state our support of the comprehensive immigration reform.
"This (court)...will express our support of this initiative by means of letters to President Barack Obama and our congressional representatives."
Approved by the Cameron County Commissioners Court Jan. 31, 2013.
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8 comments:
Fil beat you to it Cascos,....read the editorial. You have to wake up early i the morning to beat Fil Vela. Fil will destroy you in a race, stay out of his way.just retire.
Unfortunately, in this culture "real men" do beat up on their wives and girlfriends...and their mothers, sisters and daughters. A sign is not going to stop this cultural abuse.
Too little, too late. Local leadership remains behind and can't catch up with this pithy effort. Everyone knows a resolution is meaningless. The county surely is a follower, not a leader in making policy.
Or is he a nationalized citizen?????????????
A similar resolution was passed in 2010 by the Commissioner's Court.
The concept of making something "legal" in an ex post facto manner is as specious as making something illegal in an ex post facto manner. It is a process which quickens the march of ancient forms of French and German organic law as it displaces the practice of English common law and deference to precedent.
It presents the conundrum of people arriving to escape some kind of a septic tank where they lived before and then demanding the same laws be put in force to change their new place right back into the septic tanque that they abandoned.
One need only go to HEB and count the loose and unattended grocery carts that have been left in the parking lots, in lieu of having been walked a few feet to a corralito...watch the 300 pound waddling slobs who lugged out the tons of "free food" in those carts, and then count the number of pampers that have been thrown out for "somebody else" to pick up.
My grandparent marvelled at the refugees who came into Texas from the Revolution back in the 1910 - 1920 period, and how quickly they advantaged themselves of opputunity. The colonial Latins who came here with Escandon pretty much disciplined the Anglos and prospered in their midst.
Culturally, that continued until the establishment of the "great society". As soon as the crutches were passed out, we invited upon ourselves the people who did not want to learn to walk without assistance.
Remarkably, still the slight majority of the Latin and/or Mexican influx is still positive, but from 1750 up until 1970 that percentage was about 96%. When I was a much younger person, there was no litter...no graftiti..very few unfathered babies (VERY FEW), and the biggest problem in school with the Latin children was that they were almost always "over-disciplined and too deferential" by their home training and culture.
Thank you for your time, attention, and patience.
El Gringo Viejo
Isn't Carlos Cascos from Matamoros, Mexico? That would explain why he has to support the issue at hand with undocumented citizens.
Cascos for Congress 2014! Enough said...
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