Politics
Looks like there is a new GOP front-runner, for now.
Salma Hayek is the newest celebrity to blast on Donald Trump. The Mexican actress does not appreciate the businessman’s comments and generalization of her countrymen.
The Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, made a call on Tuesday to Republican leaders in the House of Representatives to approve a law project in immigration matters which has been stuck since 2013, before August.
The electoral campaigns for the presidential elections in 2016 still seem far off; however, off the record, many specialists are already pointing out the first political unions and the lists of potential aspiring candidates.
Voting on a law project to modify the immigration law which would be discussed this week received a strong blow on Friday, when Republican leaders intervened to prevent the voting from taking place.
New voices, not precisely democratic, have joined in favor of an awaited immigration reform which is still stuck in the House of Representatives in the United States.
President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that he sees a small window of opportunity to approve immigration reform, stuck in the House of Representatives, before entering the electoral period in Washington in November.
Last March, the President of the United States, Barack Obama, announced that he would revise the deportation policies of the county, and the announcement caused discomfort among the more conservative Republicans which oppose the approval of immigration reform, but, it might also serve as a precedent for Democrats to capitalize again on the Latino vote, facing the 2016 presidential elections.
On Wednesday, Federal authorities rejected the design proposed by California for driving licenses which will be given to undocumented immigrants in the U.S., under the argument that they were not sufficiently distinguishable from the normal ones, which could lead to security problems.
On Monday, May 5, a controversial ruling of the United States Supreme Court in which it refused to revise the legal case against the city of Fremont, Nebraska, made it illegal to rent houses to undocumented immigrants, but specialists have said that this decision would allow other cities inside the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals to apply similar regulations.
The use of a marijuana strain low in THC (the main psychoactive ingredient of the drug) for medicinal and therapeutic uses was approved last Friday by the Florida Senate, local media reported.
On Monday, American actress of Mexican origins Eva Longoria launched an initiative with the purpose of promoting Hispanic candidates for the upcoming legislative elections in Novemeber.
Joe Biden, the Vice President of the United States, used Cinco de Mayo to ask the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ohio republican John Boehner, to vote for an integral immigration reform which would benefit 11 million undocumented immigrants.
The Supreme Court of the United States refused to modify a law which bans renting homes to undocumented immigrants in the city of Fremont, Nebraska, shutting their ears to the appeals presented by civil rights groups in favor of illegal immigrants.
The Republican Congressman for Staten Island, Michael Grimm, surrendered to federal authorities on Monday, April 28 to answer to an investigation against him on 20 charges of fraud and perjury, among others.
