WTF Texas, too

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Texas has a deal for you!

Welcome to the jungle we got fun and games
We got everything you want honey, we know the names
We are the people that can find whatever you may need
If you got the money honey we got your disease

-Guns n Roses


How much does it cost to have a date with the President on his first day in office? Ask the Opening Day Foundation ! Everyone involved with this non profit charity will be happy to tell you.

Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Tommy Hicks Jr., the eldest son of Dallas billionaire Tom Hicks, and Dallas hedge fund manager Gentry Beach.


Dec. 14, 2016 the Opening Day Foundation was born.

$25,000 ticket? $70,000.00 ticket ?Grizzly Bear $500,000 ticket Bald Eagle$1 million ticket ?


Last week, Eric Trump tried auctioning off a coffee date with his sister Ivanka. Eric and Donald Trump Jr. were part of a venture that initially offered a private reception with their father during inauguration weekend.


Perhaps the Trump family contracted the "affluenza" disorder in Texas ?

http://www.dallasobserver.com

Tarrant County jury convicted Fred Couch, father of Ethan Couch, DFW's most prominent affluenza-stricken teenager, of impersonating a police officer. Despite the conviction, he's avoided joining his son in the Tarrant County Jail. Couch received a sentence of a year of probation, 100 hours of community service and a $260 dollar fine.

At his trial this week, Couch's defense team argued that he'd been given the badge because he was a member of the Lakeside volunteer search and rescue team. He'd never represented that he was a police officer, Couch's attorney Reagan Wynn told jurors.

Despite Couch's claims, dashcam footage showed him claiming to be a reserve officer, and the jury took only two hours to convict Couch.

 

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SB 4

What does ICE want ?


. FEB. 14, 2017

Gov. Greg Abbott’s rejection of Travis County Sheriff Sally Hernandez’s decision not to comply with ICE’s non-warranted detainer requests (and Abbott’s online pledge to “hammer Travis County”) indicates an attack on Austin’s values. A weekend of protests yielded public statements Monday from both Mayor Steve Adler and Interim Police Chief Brian Manley in support of Austin’s residents. The two denied coordination between local law enforcement and the federal immigration agency. Said Manley on Monday: “I want to know what’s going on in my community.”

Tuesday morning, Adler issued an open letter to city residents expressing his displeasure with “these secretive raids.” He reiterated that ICE hadn’t coordinated whatsoever with the sheriff or APD. “I will continue to speak out in defense of our community and urge people on all sides of this issue to continue to make themselves heard clearly and peacefully.”


http://www.austinchronicle.com/dail...addresses-ice-raids-in-open-letter-to-austin/

Denise Gilman, director of the University of Texas School of Law's immigration law clinic, told the Morning News. "To home in only on immigrants really suggests that preventing crimes isn't the motivation, but rather there's an anti-immigrant motivation."

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-t...speech-names-alleged-killer-here-10938460.php

ICE Agents Detain Immigrant Seeking Domestic Abuse Protection

In Texas, agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, entered the El Paso County Courthouse last week in order to arrest an undocumented woman who had gone to court seeking a protective order against her alleged domestic abuser. County Attorney Jo Anne Bernal said Wednesday she fears the move sets a precedent that will see undocumented survivors of domestic assault stay with their abusers rather than risk deportation and separation from their families.

http://m.democracynow.org/headline/47964

The bill by state Sen. Charles Perry, R-Lubbock, seeks to punish local entities if their law enforcement agencies fail to honor requests, known as detainers, from federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to hand over immigrants in custody for possible deportation.

It would also punish entities that enact policies preventing local law enforcement from asking about immigration status.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/...-texas-ag-and-immigration-attorneys-disagree/