The Democratic Congressman by Texas, Joaquin Castro, calls to confront President Donald Trump's measures regarding immigration and allocation of federal funds to important social programs in the United States.
The Readas against immigrants In an irregular situation undertaken in the first days in office by President Donald Trump, as well as the freezing of federal funds that could affect cancer investigations were criticized Tuesday by Democratic congressman Joaquin Castro.
The congressman, born in San Antonio, Texas, called both those who are inside politics and those who are not to go to the front before which he considers to become chaos.
“There are too many politicians, especially Republicans in Congress, who have not been willing to challenge the president in any of these issues, although they know that much of what he is doing is going to harm his own voters. And that's why we need people to speak, both within politics and in the country in general, ”Castro said at an online conference before the media.
On his first day in the presidency, Trump signed a dozen Executive orders related to immigration. Among them, the declaration of a national emergency on the southwest border and cancellation of Parole programs. In total, the president has issued more than 300 decrees also related to the economy and security.
Castro, who integrates the intelligence and foreign affairs commissions of Congress, criticized the strategy of the Republican Administration, describing it as “an attempt to radically alter US life and sow chaos in society.”
This weekend The first encounter happened Between President Trump and his counterpart the Colombian president Gustavo Petro, given the initial refusal of the latter to receive deportened immigrants, denouncing that the United States violated the protocols and demanding that he treat them with “dignity”.
Trump announced tariffs and suspension of visas to Colombian officials, but a few hours later both governments resolved the dispute and continued the deportation process.
Castro said today against the Republican campaign promises recalling that he had said that “he was going to attack the criminals, and yet one of the first things he did was ask the agents of the immigration control and customs service (ICE, for its acronym in English) to attack schools, churches and hospitals and that made raids in those places. ”
Trump has promised hard hand with immigrants without a legal status in the country, one of the struts of his campaign, and has done so since the beginning of his mandate on January 20.
“These measures are just the beginning,” Trump wrote in his social network in the middle of the exchange with Petro. “We will not allow the Colombian government to violate their legal obligations in accepting criminals who brought to the United States.”
To a question of the Voice of America On the strategy he considers to undertake in his nonconformity with Trump's policy, Castro said he will combine forces both in Congress and outside him.
“President Trump, with these executive orders, is trying to avoid Congress instead of carrying this through the legislative process, where he knows that he will lose in most of these things. Most of these things that are trying to do, some of which are unconstitutional, he knows that Congress would not approve these laws, and that is why he is trying to avoid Congress and, instead, honestly, he is acting as a king to do this on your own. “
Fund freezing
On Monday a presidential memorandum ordered the freezing of federal funds in all subsidies and loans, which came into force on Tuesday. This measure could affect medical education and medical care programs, housing assistance, helps in case of disasters and a series of other initiatives that depend on billions of federal dollars.
This Tuesday, Loren Alikhan District Judge ordered the White House not to block the financing of the ongoing programs until February 3 at a hearing for being held in a Washington court, according to the report of Reuters.
Castro commented that the order would cause chaos in lives many people, including medical beneficiaries and cancer researchers who “help people stay alive, through people who depend on school lunches, students who depend on the Student loans, the small businesses that have benefited from the loans they have been able to obtain from the federal government and government money. ”
Groups representing non -profit organizations, public health officials and small businesses filed the demand, saying that Trump's policy would be devastating. The Democrats also criticized the presidential mandate.
(Part of the information for this report came from Reuters)