Democrats failed to get rid of “King of Laredo” Henry Cuellar, and now they hope he rules

The 2022 midterm season started suboptimally for Democratic Representative Henry Cuellar. He was already facing a tough initial challenge from a well-funded opponent for a region that had always been targeted by Republicans in the fall. Then the FBI raided his house. He watched prominent Democrats either turn their backs on him or support his Democratic challenger. But despite being forced into a runoff, Cuellar survived. And some of the same Democrats who were actively rooting against him earlier this year are now praying that he will continue to thrive.…

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San Antonio policeman James Brenand is now charged with shooting Eric Canto

A San Antonio police officer who repeatedly shot a teen eating a burger in a McDonald’s parking lot has been charged with two counts of aggravated assault by a police official. “He’s in custody,” Police Chief William McManus said of James Brenand, who surrendered an arrest warrant about an hour before a Tuesday evening news conference. “We’ve been working on this for several days to get to this point.” The victim, 17-year-old Eric Canto, is on life support, and the chief said, “If he doesn’t, the charges will change.” Brenand,…

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El Paso, Texas woman, Gina Lee Rourke is accused of providing an immigrant flight and then stealing her child

A Honduran immigrant told police she was offered a trip earlier this year to a local bus station in El Paso, Texas, by a woman who kidnapped her infant son and held him for ransom for five grueling months, According to a federal criminal complaint unsealed Monday. Gina Lee Rourke, 45, faces charges of hostage-taking, aiding and abetting the kidnapping of the unknown boy in May and keeping him captive until police inadvertently found him in mid-September. Rourke told a different story to the police, insisting that her husband had…

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Michael Sheppard, the warden of the West Texas Jail, and Brother Mark are accused of shooting immigrants and killing one

The warden of a federal prison for immigrants detained in West Texas and his twin brother were arrested after allegedly shooting a group of illegal immigrants walking along a remote road Tuesday, killing one, according to authorities. Shortly after his arrest for manslaughter, Michael Sheppard was fired from his position at the privately run West Texas Detention Center in the Sierra Blanca. San Antonio Express News reported on Thursday. A spokesperson for the newspaper said Sheppard had been “sacked due to an off-duty incident unrelated to his job”. Sheppard’s brother,…

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Fox News’ Harris Faulkner didn’t ask Ken Paxton about running away to avoid subpoena

Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner interviewed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Tuesday morning for several minutes, focusing solely on immigration and the continuing boom of immigrants at the South American border. However, one topic that was never brought up was the viral news story in which Paxton fled his home less than 24 hours ago to avoid receiving a subpoena. With her morning news programme Focus Faulkner Veteran Fox broadcaster devoted much of his time Tuesday to “The American Border Crisis,” with Paxton and Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich —Another…

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I am a fertility doctor in Texas. The situation here is getting worse.

They call me “baby maker”. I’m a fertility doctor in Dallas, Texas, and I practice on the opposite spectrum of the abortion debate, helping people become fathers. My patients, staff and colleagues couldn’t be more supportive of family, pregnancy, and life. This is all we do! Let me welcome you to a day in my life. Today I started a phone call back to my local OB-GYN as I was driving to a surgical center for some procedures. She volunteers full time as group director of clinics serving needy patients,…

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‘Hopeless’ immigrants left stranded in hotel after flight to Delaware canceled

Just days after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis moved nearly 50 immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard in a sick political stunt that left officials scrambling, another group of Texas asylum seekers who had promised a better life — this time in Delaware — were stranded in a hotel Tuesday After their flight was suddenly cancelled. Instead of getting on the plane, on Tuesday a bus was sent to La Quinta where Florida agents linked to DeSantis whisked the group out of Venezuela while they waited for their never-ending flight. The bus arrived…

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America’s Most Banned Books Author Elaine Hopkins Calls BS On Parents ‘Worrying’

More than 1,600 different books Public schools and libraries have been banned for the past school year, as parents and community members across the country continue to stir up hell over acts that address cultural identities, racism, homophobia and abuse. Many banners in favor of the book insist that the material is simply not suitable for younger readers. But the authors say these concerns are just excuses — and they’re really about exclusion. “They act like they’re worried about the kids,” he said, “but they’re not.” Ellen Hopkinsauthor crankAnd the…

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Trisha Dennis Meyer, the Texan mom who once broke over a house full of tigers, is in hot water again during Jaguar cuts

A Texan mother was once arrested for harboring three tigers and several “evil” monkeys under one roof as her teenage daughter now faces federal charges after allegedly playing the middleman in the sale of an endangered jaguar cub – which was later abandoned on the doorstep of wildlife in California safe haven. Trisha Dennis Meyer, 40, has been hit with two misdemeanors and a felony, including interstate sale of an endangered species and trafficking outlawed wildlife, for moving a cub from Texas to California in 2021 after completing the $30,000…

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Why doesn’t Ron DeSantis ship Cuban refugees to Martha’s vineyard?

The 15 Cuban refugees whose makeshift boat happened to land on Florida’s largest nude beach on Labor Day would be suited to “unauthorized aliens” for Governor Ron DeSantis to put on two chartered planes he had flown to Martha’s Vineyard last week. Had some of those 15 been on board, DeSantis would likely have filled both 30-seat Fairchild Dornier 328 jets among the 100 other Cuban refugees who arrived over the May Day holiday. And if DeSantis wants to go ahead with his threat to fly and move more “unauthorized…

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