Texas Democratic Representative Joaquin Castro says Congress should draw up “articles of impeachment” against President Donald Trump over his executive order, which temporarily prohibits the arrival of Syrian refugees into the United States and halts entry of citizens from Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Libya.
At last count, over 50 Democrats have announced they will be skipping President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Friday, January 20.
Tuesday on MSNBC, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) said President-elect Donald Trump will have “one scandal after another” during his time on office. Castro said, “I think we are in that situation already, but I think we’re going to see one
Former Texas Governor Rick Perry beats U.S. Senator Ted Cruz in a hypothetical 2018 GOP senate primary poll published Thursday. The poll shows Gov. Perry with a 9 point lead over the incumbent freshman senator.
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has taken a massive hit in a new favorability poll among likely Texas voters. More than 60 percent of those polled said they had an unfavorable opinion of the freshman senator. The poll also shows the incumbent senator in a statistical tie in a hypothetical race against Democrat U.S. Representative Joaquin Castro.
U.S. Congressman Joaquin Castro (D-TX) has announced that he is considering a run against Texas Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX).
The CHANGE Act would replace the term “alien” with “foreign national” and replace “illegal alien” with “undocumented foreign national” in federal materials.
U.S. Representative Joaquin Castro believes it is time to make the elimination of the legal term used to describe people from another country, “Alien,” from our law books. Castro compared the term that has been used for decades to describe the immigration status of people entering this country legally or illegally to the words “lunatic” and “mentally retarded.”
While the word “alien” has been used to refer to foreign nationals in the U.S. for more than 220 years, the term dehumanizes immigrants and should be stripped from federal law, according to Rep. Joaquin Castro (R-TX). He’s introduced a bill to replace “alien” with “foreign national” and “illegal alien” with “undocumented foreign national” in federal law and executive agency documents.
A Texas Jewish community was rocked by what law enforcement is investigating as a hate crime. Unmistakable widespread anti-Semitic vandalism defaced a subdivision and the neighboring Orthodox synagogue, tagging property with hateful ethnic slurs, curse words, “KKK,” and worse.
San Antonio, Texas, is poised to become one of the largest police departments in the nation using body cameras, or ‘body cams’ as they are now being called. Body cams are video recorders that are worn on the officers’ uniform and records every minute of every shift.
The confluence of a Supreme Court that decides it has the power to legislate, a pro-active politicized bureaucracy at HUD that is betting the court will help it end-run Congress, and a Congress that allows itself to be manipulated by allowing its own independent agency to usurp its legislative function confirms that the federal government in its entirety has now merely become yet another arm of the Democratic Party.
Sunday, on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Congressman Joaquin Castro (D-TX) said, “a lot of the hysteria that you see now about illegal immigration,” is being caused by right wing politicians like Donald Trump “playing to a very angry base of
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” host Andrea Mitchell mistakenly identified her guest Rep. Joaquín Castro (D-TX) as having a “Cuban-American background” in her setup for a question about U.S.-Cuba relations. “[W]e’ll talk politics but I want to talk
Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) slammed Texas Republican leaders on Wednesday for what he claimed was their “touchdown dance” celebrating Judge Andrew Hanen’s temporary injunction against President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty.
As House leaders tried to corral votes for the Obama-Boehner cromnibus Thursday afternoon, a number of congressional staffers walked out on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and put their hands in the air. The group of about 140 staffers offered
After President Barack Obama failed to visit the border on recent fundraising trips to Texas and California, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) said on Friday that he hopes Obama could prioritize a visit to the border to see the crisis firsthand.
After reports indicated that Texas Governor Rick Perry was preparing to deploy National Guard troops to the border, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) suggested Perry should send the Red Cross instead. On Sunday evening, Castro implied the border was secure because
Though the Obama administration has insisted that illegal immigrant children from Central America are flooding across the border primarily to escape rampant violence, a leaked intelligence report concludes that is not necessarily the case, especially because the murder rate in El
On Sunday, three more Democrats said President Barack Obama should go to the border to see the illegal immigration crisis first hand after Obama refused to visit the border while attending three fundraisers in Texas last week. Rep. Luis Gutierrez
DALLAS, Texas–Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) recently introduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives to transform his brother Julian’s mayoral signature education plan Pre-K for SA (San Antonio) into Pre-K for USA. The Pre-K for USA Act would allow
Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX), who is seen as one of the rising stars in his party, believes some of the illegal immigrant children flooding across the border from Central America should be considered for asylum. “I think the children who
On Monday, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) introduced an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would allow DREAMers who received temporary amnesty under President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action plan to become eligible to apply to U.S. military academies.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) called Rep. Steve King (R-IA) an “asshole” to Democrats last year after King said that not all illegal immigrant “DREAMers” are valedictorians, and some, “with calves the size of cantaloupes,” are known drug smugglers. In
Barack Obama, shifting the American public’s focus away from Obamacare toward a debate on income inequality, is launching his Housing and Urban Development (HUD) program titled “Promise Zones,” which entails using government largess to give tax incentives and grants to
In response to Texas Democrat Joaquin Castro: Cruz Can’t Be President: This is coming from one of the biggerst amigos of the racist La-Raza faction of the Demoratic Party. When you dig a bit into the Castro’s familia, their mama
Gazing into his crystal ball, left wing Congressman Joaquin Castro (D-TX) asserted Friday that Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) “can’t be president.” Castro, whose twin brother Julian is the Democratic mayor of San Antonio and considered to have national political ambitions
