I do not believe that the MAGA Party is going to do anything because it is the right thing to do, So when I read that Ken Paxton was suing a developer for discrimination against Spanish Speakers, I was so shocked, that my wife had to rush to my side to make sure that I was okay. Well not that shocked.
Thursday’s lawsuit marks the most significant state action to date against the development. It echoes many of the claims in a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit filed against Colony Ridge in December. In the state’s lawsuit, Paxton argues the developers target foreign-born, Latino consumers with a bait-and-switch sales scheme that leads to sky-high foreclosure rates.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Houston-area developers of Colony Ridge on Thursday, accusing them of deceptive sales, marketing and lending practices that allowed their sprawling housing development to flourish.
Residents of Colony Ridge filed dozens of complaints for years about the development to state agencies, but Texas had little to show for addressing those concerns, according to a Texas Tribune and Houston Landing investigation. Paxton announced his office’s investigation last fall, after right-wing media conflated the development’s growth with high levels of illegal immigration at the Texas border.
At least 11 consumer complaints were sent to the Attorney General’s Office about Colony Ridge since 2019, long before Paxton told a conservative talk radio host his office would investigate. Paxton at the time also said it was “completely insane that they can set up these villages with illegal immigrants,” but claimed the Legislature had not given his office the “authority to do anything about it.” Source
Down in South Texas, Democratic Congressman Vicente Gonzalez is referring to Mexican-Americans who support Trump, the equivalent of Jews supporting Hitler.
“If they didn’t have that racist, divisive element within their party, they would have a lot of Latinos, but they can’t seem to shake that off,” Gonzalez told the magazine. “The rhetoric you hear from the Republican Party is shameful and disgraceful for Latinos. And you know, when you see ‘Latinos for Trump,’ to me it is like seeing ‘Jews for Hitler,’ almost, you know?” Source