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Obamapalooza 2.0 update: U.S. and Cuba to hold ‘migration talks’ this week

https://diariodecuba.com/cuba/1681163669_46389.html

Translated excerpt, with translators ‘comments’:

From our Bureau of Thinly Disguised Preludes to Total Capitulation Over Weaponized Migration

Talks between Castro, Inc. and Jar-Jar Biden’s administration are about to resume this week in Washington D.C. The meetings are ostensibly about migration issues, but chances are that the real subject is the renewal of the so-called “thaw” initiated by Barack Obama back in 2016.

So, get ready for Obamapalooza 2.0, and for a new set of unilateral concessions to Castro, Inc.

Sending over a quarter of a million Cubans to the U.S. in 2022 seems to be paying off for Castro, Inc. Never underestimate the power of weaponized migration.

The US and Cuban governments will hold another round of migration talks on Wednesday, officials in Washington said, as President Joe Biden’s administration prepares for the end of Covid-era border restrictions that have prevented Cubans from crossing. to the United States from Mexico in recent months.

The high-level meeting in Washington will follow the one held in Havana in November and comes a year after the Biden Administration resumed such contacts, after a long hiatus under former President Donald Trump, Reuters reported.

This week’s meeting “represents a continuation of our longstanding engagement with Cuba on migration issues as neighboring states and is limited to the issue of migration,” a US State Department official was quoted as saying on Monday by Reuters.

“Ensuring safe, orderly, humane, and regular migration between Cuba and the United States remains a primary interest of the United States, consistent with our interest in fostering family reunification and promoting greater respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms in Cuba. “said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

McAllen, Texas: Former County Attorney for Starr County Indicted For Public Corruption

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdtx/pr/former-county-attorney-starr-county-indicted-public-corruption

Excerpt:

Victor Canales was the former county attorney for Starr County. He is expected to make his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Nadia S. Medrano at 9 a.m. Monday, April 10.

A federal grand jury returned the nine count indictment April 5, which was unsealed today upon his arrest.

According to the indictment, from on or about Jan. 1, 2005, until on or about April 20, 2022, Canales was the elected county attorney. In that role, he had the authority to collect fines and fees and to choose whether or not to prosecute certain offenses, according to the charges.

The indictment also alleges that Starr County had received more than $10,000 in federal benefits each year between 2018-2021. During that time, Canales allegedly embezzled property worth at least $5,000 in each of those years.

Further, Canales knowingly obstructed and affected commerce by extortion by obtaining property not due to him on four separate occasions in 2021, according to the indictment. Canales also allegedly knowingly and willfully used a facility in interstate and foreign commerce to carry on unlawful activity between 2017 and 2021.

Canales is charged with one count of the Travel Act violations which carries a possible sentence of up to five years in federal prison, upon conviction. He also faces a maximum of 10 years on each of four counts of federal programs theft and up to another 20 years on each conviction of Hobbs Act extortion under color of official right. All charges also carry a possible $ 250,000 maximum fine.

The FBI worked in partnership with the Texas Office of the Attorney General to conduct the Border Corruption Task Force (BCTF) investigation with the assistance of OCDETF Operation Ice River agencies including the Drug Enforcement Administration, Texas Department of Public Safety – Texas Rangers and Homeland Security Investigations.

The BCTF is comprised of multiple state and federal agencies that serve to disrupt and dismantle corrupt domestic public officials that operate along the southwest border.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Patricia Cook Profit is prosecuting the case.
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Yes Canales is a democrat.