HPOU and their stand on City Council’s new police regarding ICE.
What the HPOU representative is doing is something that Republicans have mastered: how to make Muslims, Illegals, transgender people, or anyone else that they are targeting a bogeyman.
What the HPOU representative is doing is something that Republicans have mastered: how to make Muslims, Illegals, transgender people, or anyone else that they are targeting a bogeyman.
Basically, what our mayor, John Whitmire, says is, yes, we’re going to call ICE, but don’t be afraid to call us. He must not think that we’re too smart.
I am sure that the Mayor of Houston will crow like a rooster about how he brought crime down in Houston, when the reality is that people are not reporting crimes, which they would have if they trusted the police.
Now, the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, only has to call John Whitmire and tell him what he wants done. So why do we need a puppet to be our mayor?
f you want to see what our Houston Police Officers union thinks of undocumented persons here in Houston, you don’t have to look any further than a letter that they put out today after the City Council voted to stop the waste of police officers’ time waiting for ICE to maybe show up. Or the damage they have done to any type of relations that they had with the immigrant community.
Yes, Chavez and many others called them Wetbacks, so what? The people she is referring to are worse; not only are they mojados, but they are also scabs.
If HPD seems to think that the immigrant community is ignorant of what they are doing, they are sorely mistaken. Whitmire and his policy have made Houston much more dangerous for us. People who would normally call in crimes will not do so, especially if their freedom is at risk or the risk of being separated from their families here.
Annise Parker votes for Republicans. Houston Chronicle likes their politicians to kiss the asses of the Donald Trumps and the Greg Abbotts of the world.
I am not surprised that the Hispanic leadership here in Houston has not criticized him. Too many of them owe their political careers to him. Before running for office, almost without exception, they went to kiss the Don’s ring.
Calling HPD to report a crime can result in a person who is undocumented being detained while ICE comes to pick him or her up.
Operation Wetback, did not work the way two leading organization pushing for Mexican-Americans thought it would.
The killings by ICE have been going on for a long time, how many others have they covered up?
They would flee to the Americas seeking freedom. The USA is no longer the land of the free but the one making citizens show them their papers.
Nearly 100 people signed up to speaker on ICE to let the mayor and city council that they are not happy with them bending their knees to the Greg Abbotts and Donald Trumps of this world.
Executing citizens, kidnapping of citizens, torturing of citizens, breaking into homes without warrants, and countless other crimes that normally would result in arrests of the Trump Gestapo would not be popular? Certainly not the clowns that Trump has surrounded himself with.
The Latinx Leaders need backbones to stand up and represent their community.
I don’t think people realize it’s a Pete Wilson moment unfolding; it could turn Texas Blue for a long time.
officers beat up Samuel, a detained teenager who uses a pseudonym, so badly, he had to go to the hospital. His right front tooth broke, and he said one officer “grabbed my testicles and firmly crushed them,” while another “forced his fingers deep into my ears.” He added that weeks after the beating, damage to his left ear was so severe that he now has trouble hearing.