INTERNATIONAL CHILD CUSTODY IS NOT AN "I HAVE AN IDEA"

A state judge was indicted and convicted of interfering with federal ICE authority. "A federal jury found Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan guilty Thursday of obstructing immigration agents as they attempted to arrest an undocumented immigrant defendant last April."  NPR

In this case ICE is probably as happy as they can be that they got rid of an anchor baby.  How sad.

ICE is dead serious about controlling recalcitrant state judges.  It should shock no one the lawyers of Cameron County fail to understand the law on this issue.

Any action concerning a child, and specifically a US born child, before removal to Mexico is the best interest of the child, and not what the judge or parents want.

Such a child is entitled to an ad litem to assist in what is in the child's best interest.  The child's criminal defense attorney cannot act as an ad litem.  This is so basic it is surreal a judge and attorney would not know this.

The best example is, the attorney who sues for a child in a personal injury case, cannot be trusted to be acting in the child's best interest in terms of a settlement.  It is standard an ad litem is appointed to insure the child's best interests.

A child born in the US is entitled to a complete education within the ISD wherein they live.  Under federal law school ISD's can refuse entry to any child, a US citizen or not who do not live within the ISD.  This is not an immigration issue.  It is a problem commonly seen with athletes from one ISD wanting to attend school in another ISD.

When you publicly admit a child has no address within an ISD, you are insuring the child cannot attend school within the ISD.  This is not in the best interests of the child.  Just because an ISD may ignore the law does not automatically make it in the best interest of child.

In all likelihood an indigent child is on CHIP health insurance and SNAP, although the mother may be undocumented.  It is a well-documented problem that US children forced to live in Mexico are denied health insurance and a proper education.  This is commonly seen in custody cases wherein the parent living in Mexico under international law is given primary custody.

It is not in the best interest of a child to cut off their CHIP health insurance.  Even though they are not formally enrolled now, during a medical emergency any local hospital would have no problem enrolling the child.

All of this is why the child needs an ad litem.

Both Mexico and the US have their own laws concerning taking a child across the border.  An Ad litem would do their best to locate a remaining parent in the US or family member to better understand the child's options.  A parent denied all best options may not be able to decide what is in her child's best interests.  A relative may be a better option than removing a child to Mexico.  This is based on evidence and a due process hearing of record before a competent judge.

If there is a parent still in the US that child cannot be taken into Mexico without the remaining parent's consent.  Depending on all the facts a US Passport is needed, or maybe even a dual citizen passport.

If all the safeguards are not met, moving a child across international borders could be a crime.

I do not have all the facts.  But I know enough denying a child who is a US citizen an education and CHIP health insurance is never in the child's best interests unless international custody law mandates removal to Mexico, which in many cases is the reality. 

If investigated and there are better options on the US side, the child's 14th Amendment Rights were violated.

It is surreal to me a child in such a precarious situation can be denied an ad litem attorney separate from a criminal defense attorney. 

An ad litem would have insured BISD would not deny the child an education because the child has no residency within BISD.  An ad litem would have verified if the child was on Chip health insurance and would be able to continue to receive health insurance.  There is no such health insurance in Mexico for US citizen children. This is a major issue with Mexico and US custody cases. 

It is not clear if the child had a criminal defense attorney or an ad litem.  While it is true you do not want to place a minor on the street, that does not mean you can ignore 14th Amendment guarantees, or international law. 

It is possible under proper investigation the best interests of the child were met.  In this case because the child had residency in the US before the problem came about, custody must be decided under Texas law. 

If no one speaks up, we shall never know if the child received all due process rights.

A complete investigation will tell us if all the rules were followed.  If the father's consent was not obtained with a lawyer, he can reopen everything. 

 

THIS IS SO WELL SAID. YOU DO NOT NEED RELIGION TO HAVE A MORAL COMPASS

Religion is okay, but when you seek to make it part of public policy you are wrong, all wrong.

NAJERA ALONG WITH EVERY OTHER CANDIDATE FOR TSC AND THE PORT GET AN "F" ON JOBS TRAINING

This also goes to every elected official at BISD, the City of Brownsville, TSC, and the Port.  It also goes hard on our local state representatives.

Not a one of these people have a clue how to build a workforce for what is coming.  Elon Musk gets a big "F" in terms of doing his part because he remains clueless about just how incompetent our local officials remain.  He is so accustomed to just calling on the locals that he fails to understand on job training he must take the lead. 

After reading below Najera has to explain what he has done to help with job training.  The answer is nothing.  His promise sounds nice, but it delivers nothing.

OPEN LETTER TO ELON MUSK
 

I worked on all 100 B1B Bombers from ship 1 to 100.  I grew in production and inventory control as computers played a big part in the process. 

When inventory and production control fail, cost overruns and delays become the norm.  For now, because locally no one has any interest in training our local workers, SpaceX should coordinate with TDC because they have a very good program for inmates.  They have no problem placing former inmates at good jobs.  They train the former inmates to be job ready when they complete their term at TDC.  No such program is underway in Cameron County.

THE FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS FOR ELON MUSK 

He must go outside the area to hire a job recruiter and trainer to make Cameron County ready to fill the thousands of jobs coming our way at SpaceX and the Port. 

We all know if the local officials respond to this post, they will hire their sons, daughters and local political operatives to handle job training and recruitment, with zero qualifications. I would not trust Adela Garza, John Cowen, or Eddie Trevino to execute the following plan.  They have proven they know nothing about preparing for the new jobs.  They have done nothing.

THE PLAN

Elon Musk must create a centralized workforce training and recruitment office.  If he does not, he will find himself scrambling to hire the needed employees.

Step One:  Elon Musk and the other incoming Port employers need to develop a list of jobs to be filled.  For each job they need to state the related training and experience needed for the job.  Elon Musk then needs to send these lists with a demand to each political entity in Cameron County and ask, what do you specifically have already in progress to train and fill these job openings?  the answer is very little.  No political entity in Cameron County has anyone on staff to help with developing the resources .to train the needed workforce. 

Step Two: Once it is verified for Elon Musk no one has taken the needed action to prepare the local workforce, he through his workforce and training office need to spell out in clear terms what each entity must do to fill the prospective job openings.

Cameron County is going into a big boom period.  In the same way we have a regional high school for medical training, we need a manufacturing regional high school.  I can assure you this has not even occurred by our local state elected officials, or any other political entity.

An example where the high schools may be able to start the job training:  Inventory control requires less training than production control.  This is where I started.  I basically stocked parts until an order was placed to pull the parts to create a kit to manufacture a new and larger part.  Everyone in my unit at my level had zero training in computers, and certainly no university training.  To a person they were a manager's son, no daughter allowed. 

When the person charged with entering the data for missing parts went on vacation I was allowed to do his job.  Immediately the line foreman noticed the difference.  The manager's son thought his job was that of a typist. A very high paid typist.  I realized a key part of the job was notifying the unit where the part was being held up.  The line supervisors immediately asked who was doing my job.  I kept the job.

They then moved me up to a shortage analyst.  Again, the other workers were just acting as typists. 

I worked with the computer programs based on my training with the "IF" statement and created very effective shortage reports which targeted the real problem.  Parts started to move.  The delays were going away.  In 1976, computer training was learning the "IF" statement.  It was not much more advanced in 1985.  They were just moving beyond basic computer programing.  But a command of the "IF" statement took you a long way. 

Once you moved to production control you had to learn to read work orders to see if you needed to push certain parts to get them to the assembly line on time.  It was all codes and you needed to learn them.  Sometimes you had to take a scooter over to the area in machine shop where the part was being held up.  The guys had thousands of brackets waiting to be deburred.  If someone was not sent to the deburr area to move the brackets to the front of the line, they did not move.   This part is production control.

MANUFACTING POSTITIONS

I am certain SpaceX will need electronic component assemblers.  People in training to become electricians if they choose can be given extra training to be an assembler.  But no one is doing the training.

We are in trouble with robotic assembling training.  This will be another big part of the job training needed now.  

GETTING TO THE FINAL POINT

Elon Musk needs to hire a liaison to manage all of this.  He needs someone who can read his demand list and work with the Texas Workforce, TSC, BISD, and our local state representatives to create the infrastructure needed for all the jobs coming our way.  None of this is happening, which makes this part of the reason I am calling out Najera, but in fact everyone running for the Port and TSC.

People will say I am trying to get a job.  Hell no. I have found three options for a new home in NY.  I am working as hard as I can to leave.  We have no healthcare in the LRGV, generally.  I do like my cardiologist, and my San Antonio pulmonologist is going to work with him to do the needed testing.

I would consider helping to hire the right person to do the job of liaison.  If Elon Musk allows the local yokels to hire such a person, he will get what he deserves. Disaster. 

I can help to get it going, but that is it.

In the field generally of inventory and production control is an expeditor.  This person keeps things moving.  It means being on people 24/7 to get them to perform their job.  The liaison hired by Elon Musk needs to also be a good expeditor.  Musk needs someone who will meet with the local officials who will either respond to Musk's needs or be left out of the process.  There is no time or place for political maneuvering. Either verify you will be a player to move things along, and how you will be a key player, or get out of the way while Musk looks elsewhere for help. 

I can write for pages about every manufacturing job and the need for training and how the training is performed, but I think my point has been made.

NOTHING IS GETTING DONE

The Texas Workforce Commission has no information about the future jobs so people can begin to look for job training.  The Texas Workforce Commission should be reaching out to SpaceX, but they are not.

Whether it is TSC, BISD, or a regional effort nothing is being done to identify the jobs coming our way and how people go about to get job training.

As to the Port, there are a lot of potential jobs on the line.  The Port is doing nothing to identify those jobs and the associated job training.

The Port election is about the billions of dollars about to come into the Port and control of the contracts.  It is not about helping anyone in your family to get the needed job training and associated higher wages. 

THE GUIDING TIMELINE

It is not random when SpaceX will need the workers.  There is a production timeline I assume Elon Musk already has in place.

The date certain [ really an estimate] when Musk needs each worker ready to go.

Part one will include which workers will be needed for the first 6 months, and then a schedule for additional workers.

From that date for each job, you back out to how long is needed for to job training. You leave nothing to chance.

You identify where you will get the job training and insure, they can meet your deadline.  This is just part of production control and having a good expeditor on board who can keep the training moving. There will be no time for excuses. 

 

IT PAINS ME TO SAY ANYTHING NICE ABOUT TRUMP, BUT THE ABOVE IS TRUE

All major tax services provide for free federal tax returns.  This is for medium to low income.

Every year I do the taxes for free for several people.  You cannot charge a fee, and I do not.

WHAT I HAVE SEEN, PEOPLE LIKE

During the year a lot of people paid a lot of income tax on overtime.  The new tax reform form provides separate from the standard deduction, a special deduction for overtime.  This is new and I have had to check other for box 14.  That is fine the federal form still allows for the deduction.

I can tell you when you tell someone they have an extra deduction for $7,000 

in overtime, and they are getting back all the taxes they paid on that $7,000, they are happy.

I am extremely careful with Trump Derangement Syndrome.  I tell them the truth, it is because of the Trump's Big Beautiful Bill.  It serves no purpose to withhold the truth just because you dislike Trump.

One person was pretty frank about the news. "So what, my wife still cannot go out because she is afraid of being deported.

So yes, Trump will get a lot of positive response, and so too will the Republicans, but that positive response may not but support as the people continue to suffer otherwise. 

Let's see what these refunds do to the deficit.

Let's see how they impact inflation as people spend a lot more money.

See you can tell the truth about how Trump did help low to middle income people, but just tell the entire truth. 

 

DEALING WITH THE RUMORS

One I have no terminal decease that I know of.  On Monday I will finally be scheduled for the prostate biopsy.  I suspect I will also be scheduled for a testicular ultrasound.  I am certain it is cyst and not a real lump.  High insulin use can cause cysts on the reproductive organs.  It is one thing after another.

THERE IS NO TRUTH I INTEND TO USE THE PENDING MOTION TO HAVE THE TEXAS SUPREME COURT HELD IN CONTEMPT TO HELP THE DEMOCRATS

 The evidence is solid.  Three times after the case was removed to federal court, the Chief Justice once on his own, and then once all but Justice Devine, and then finally the entire court issued a ruling in the case before the federal court.  There is no dispute.  On November 14, 2025, I notified the Supreme Court the case had been removed to federal court.  Then staring in December, they started to issue orders in the case which was in federal court. 

They clearly had no jurisdiction, so they have no immunity.  They have a very large demand package explaining the federal suit to be filed in Austin.  It also includes Regional Administrative Judge Missy Medary.  

SO, WHAT IS MY OBJECTIVE?

Chief Justice James Blacklock and the others on the November ballot need to resign so Governor Abbott can replace them.  If Governor Abbott replaces them with Justices who commit to meaningful judicial reform, I will actually support them.

But I can tell you, under no circumstances will I endorse any Democrat for any office in Texas.  

I am horrified Texas Democrats, and the National Democratic Party have not denounced James Talarico as a Christian radical trying to impose liberal Christianity on the people of Texas. No public policy should be based on liberal or conservative religious beliefs.  

Do people not understand by not denouncing Talarico they are endorsing the idea that it is okay for Christian nationals to impose their values on us.

The fundamental evil in Christianity is among those who believe they can impose their idea of what is and is not Christianity on the world. This always leads to bad things.

Judaism does not believe in preaching their values on their world. They respect everyone equally.  This is why so many Jewish groups all over the world are denouncing Netanyahu's policies as injurious to humanity and the true Judaism 

I do not care your religion, when you use it to govern, you are the evil which has brought so much death to humanity. Talarico is a very hard no.  I can say every Chistian I know agrees with me.  Talarico is dangerous to every loving religion.

AS TO JUDICIAL CANDIDATES

There is no Democrat running for the Texas Supreme Court or Court of Criminal Appeals who is qualified for the job or knows a thing about the necessary reforms needed to bring back justice to our legal system. 

I stand by my commitment I will support replacement Republican candidates if they come out for strong reform. So, no, I am not supporting any Democrat for any position statewide or locally. 

 

LOTTERY TICKERT SOLD AT GORDONS BAIT AND TACKLE IS SET TO EXPIRE

"The person who bought a whopping $78 million jackpot ticket at Gordon’s Bait & Tackle in Brownsville last year has yet to claim their prize.

The Texas Lottery announced on Thursday that the would-be millionaire has until 5 p.m. on May 14 to claim the prize at the Texas Lottery headquarters in Austin; otherwise, it will expire and go back to the state for programs authorized by the Texas Legislature.

The winning numbers are 7, 17, 23, 28. 39, 48.

Social Media has a duty to help find the winner.  It is possible a lawyer retained by the winner is still working on the trust documents.  If this is the case, the lawyer is cutting close.

Another option, and this is where social media can help.  Most people buy their tickets at the same place.  I actually do not.  I always go to a place out of the city.

It is possible the winner just bought it on a whim while buying bait for fishing.

Here is how we help.  If Gordon's knows of a regular customer may have died after the purchase date, it may be able to suggest to customer's families they check to see if a loved one had an unclaimed lottery ticket.  

Maybe just a random customer died after purchasing the ticket.  The families in Brownsville need to double check the belongings of any family member who may have bought a ticket at Gordons.

In my mind the unclaimed ticket is from someone waiting on their lawyer to complete the trust documents, died just after the drawing, or is maybe in a nursing home from a possible illness.

Social Media needs to keep this story going until the winner or their family can come forward. Good luck to the family. 

 

BPUB CONCEALS IT DELETED 10'S OF THOUSANDS OF CUSTOMERS ACCOUNTS

They are blaming a new program.  Fine - fire whomever purchased the program.  They obviously did not do their due diligence.

I keep a tight budget.  I always have a reserve for emergencies.  Yesterday I could not access my BPUB account.  I was told they could not find my account number or email.  I could not access the account.  Some people who do not pay attention to their bills and receive notice electronically could end up missing their payment.  The emails are gone according to the BPUB.

This morning I was told after making an inquiry that the new system deleted all of the account information for many customers.

Fine, a fool bought a bad program, fire them and then post to your web page a notice for customers to reregister.  That is what I was told in the communication from the BPUB this morning.

WHY CAN THE BPUB NOT JUST TELL THE TRUTH?