Post by pavel on Apr 11, 2016 19:34:20 GMT -6
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump visited the U.S.-Mexico border in Laredo in July 2015.ublican presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks after arriving at the airport for a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border in Laredo, Texas, on July 23.(Photo: LM Otero, AP)
Members of the U.S. Border Patrol union in El Paso on Tuesday will ask their union local to disavow the National Border Patrol Council's endorsement of presidential candidate Donald Trump.
More than 20 elected officials, education groups and community leaders in El Paso and southern New Mexico are supporting the move by some members of Local 1929 to reject the union's national endorsement of Trump and take a neutral stance in the presidential election. The issue will be raised at Local 1929's regularly scheduled membership meeting on Tuesday.
Organizers of the effort declined to comment, but the El Paso Times obtained several letters from El Paso and New Mexico community leaders that were gathered in support of the move to have Local 1929 distance itself from the Trump endorsement. The local represents about 1,700 agents – about 10 percent of the union's total membership – in the Border Patrol's El Paso sector, which covers far West Texas and all of New Mexico.
Read more: www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/04/11/el-paso-nm-border-agents-fight-trump-endorsement/82895344/
Members of the U.S. Border Patrol union in El Paso on Tuesday will ask their union local to disavow the National Border Patrol Council's endorsement of presidential candidate Donald Trump.
More than 20 elected officials, education groups and community leaders in El Paso and southern New Mexico are supporting the move by some members of Local 1929 to reject the union's national endorsement of Trump and take a neutral stance in the presidential election. The issue will be raised at Local 1929's regularly scheduled membership meeting on Tuesday.
Organizers of the effort declined to comment, but the El Paso Times obtained several letters from El Paso and New Mexico community leaders that were gathered in support of the move to have Local 1929 distance itself from the Trump endorsement. The local represents about 1,700 agents – about 10 percent of the union's total membership – in the Border Patrol's El Paso sector, which covers far West Texas and all of New Mexico.
Read more: www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/04/11/el-paso-nm-border-agents-fight-trump-endorsement/82895344/