WingRight

Edify, Educate, Elect! Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Search

Last Joja

This tag is associated with 1 post

Sanctuary City Swimming in Other People’s Taxes

Posted by bnuckols ⋅ June 25, 2018

From the Mayor of the home town of La Joya Independent School District, the “independent” school system in Hildalgo County, Texas with the water park, a 22K sq ft natatorium, tennis courts, a planetarium, and a golf course,enabled with money from Texas taxpayers:

“My position was why should the city of La Joya, or any city in the Valley, detain any ICE illegals when ICE already has cages for them?”Salinas said Sunday. “Maybe they have a better place for them than we do and, of course, we’re totally against what they’re doing; I think we should unite the families, not divide them.”

…

“If it hadn’t been for that I would not have reacted this way,” he said, “but I’m a Mexican-American and I support my people.”

It’s not just “that.”

Last year, Mayor Salinas led La Joya to join the lawsuit against Texas’ Senate Bill 4, that penalizes cities that refuse to cooperate with Federal immigration laws and authorities. So far, that lawsuit has been upheld in Court.

Yet, the Mayor has no problem with the budget of his school district accepting accepting over $51M from the Federal Government.

Of course, that’s only 15% of the “Independent” school district’s funding. Texas Taxpayers pay 75% or $251,737,388.

The City also receives Federal funding through the Operation Stonegarden Program from the Department of Homeland Security, but the Mayor says they don’t use those funds to detain anyone for ICE.

I wish the Mayor respected non-hyphenated Americans and Texans, even if he doesn’t count us as his

people.

Edited to correct spelling. BBN