Clinton Talks On Border Issues
Put forth on February 14, 2008 by XicanoPwr
Posted in Elections, Elections 2008, Immigration
Hillary Clinton talked about issues of special interest to South Texas and the border region at a news conference in McAllen, TX (h/t to Rio Grande Guardian). Those issues were relations with Mexico, the border wall, comprehensive immigration, a veterans’ hospital, and the Superfund site in Mission.
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In South Texas, many veterans have a hard time getting access to health care. They are force to travel hundreds of miles for a doctor’s appointment. This is why area Congressional members, such as Rubén Hinojosa are strongly pushing for a VA Hospital in the Rio Grande Valley.
A Superfund law was created by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liabilities Act of 1980 to protect people, families, communities and others from heavily contaminated toxic waste sites that have been abandoned. When an area is deemed a hazardous waste site it becomes a Superfund site, which is then placed on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) National Priority List (NPL) as an area to clean up abandoned hazardous waste.
According to the Rio Grande Guardian, Clinton is planning to holds another rally in McAllen next week.
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
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We wouldn’t need immigration reform if Bill Clinton had stood up to the Republicans in 1996. Instead he and Hillary caved and signed into law one of the most draconian immigration bills ever passed by Congress. The mess we have today, stared with Bill Clinton in 1996.
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The video is gone, XP. I wanted to see it, too.
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