For some time now we have been discussing the lie being perpetuated by Veronica Escobar and cohorts that El Paso is an immigrant friendly city. I have been sharing with you data and other evidence demonstrating to you that not only is the notion that El Paso is immigrant friendly a lie, but that in… Read More Immigration Friendly El Paso Lie Revisited Through Jail Data
Vince Perez is correct in wanting to end the jail contract with the federal government. There is some controversy over whether the County is losing money in the deal, although it is likely that it is. However, Perez’ call to end the County’s agreement to jail federal prisoners exposes two dirty secrets that Veronica Escobar… Read More Vince Perez Exposes El Paso Dirty Secrets
For some time now I have been developing the thesis that in El Paso there is a protected class of citizen. It is class that can literally commit a crime in plain daylight and not worry about being arrested, much less prosecuted. I also, recently, and for the first time, revealed to you my feeling… Read More More Proof: the Protected Class and Unfriendliness Towards Immigrants
Many of you are aware of the ongoing corruption sagas over at The City of Socorro, Texas, not to be confused with the New Mexico version. As I have written previously that the El Paso region is led by a culture of corruption so engrained into the community’s psyche that the obvious public corruption that… Read More Socorro Corruption
As you all know, I like to connect the political and corrupt dots for you. In today’s edition I am going to show you how engrained the political system is in El Paso. It involves a family that is well-connected politically and how the local political system enables the many problems the community faces. There… Read More Connecting the Cortinas Dots
Anyone that has any basic understanding of dealing with the personal issues of drug addiction, alcohol abuse or dealing with weight or health problems because of over eating, understands that the first step in the recovery process is acknowledging that there is a problem. Acknowledging that a problem exists requires verbalizing the problem in order… Read More The El Paso Culture of Hiding Dirty Laundry
The problem with a city, like El Paso, which relies on creating illusions of reality, is that the inconvenient truth always comes out. Many of you are aware of the video of Sgt. James Brown that has been circulating on social media and on the national news circuit the last few days. It is poignantly… Read More The Death of James Brown Exposes El Paso Dirty Secret
My comments yesterday about the murder-suicide at the Ft. Bliss Veteran’s Center and Monday’s post about my contention that El Paso is corrupt to the core elicited some comments pointing out the homicide rate in Cd. Juárez. To be clear, I agree that Cd. Juárez has its share of corruption problems. I am not blind to… Read More El Paso is the Cause of Juarez Blood
It is no secret that I am highly critical of the Veronica Escobar led public policy agenda currently in place. Although Escobar is the “face” of the public policy agenda the reality is that the public policy was put in place by Ray Caballero on the behest of others. No doubt that Foster and Hunt… Read More The Oscar Leeser Political Faction
