Suits and Stories
June 24th, 2007Poachers have killed one of only two remaining White Rhinos and shot the other, wounding it. That’s a shame.
There are two more stories that caught my eye today. The EPA is saying that our air is too dirty and we must clean it up. It’s nice of them to come around.
This, too, is interesting, especially in light of all the recent Department of Justice scandals.
Guadalupe Gonzalez is the chief counsel for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in El Paso, a lawyer with more than 20 years of experience in immigration law and a stellar record. In 2002, she made the next logical career move, applying to become an immigration judge. “I love El Paso. It is my home. I was born and raised here, and it’s important for me personally to contribute in a role that is both vitally important to our country and of particular importance to the El Paso community,” she said.
But the job went to a Anglo male candidate with no reported immigration experience. In 2004, when two other judgeships opened, they went to two other Anglo males, both of them Gonzalez’s subordinates with markedly less expertise in immigration law than Gonzalez. Gonzalez, 56, sued the U.S. attorney general for discrimination on the basis of gender and national origin, and the suit is pending in a court in Washington, D.C. In her filings, Gonzalez claimed that since 2001, only two Hispanics were appointed nationwide for 40 immigration judgeships. The four immigration judges in El Paso are all Anglo men.
It’s a very interesting case. What sets off alarms to me is the boldened portion, but I suppose that’s government, isn’t it? That’s definitely George W. Bush’s government.