Villages of Woodland Springs Homeowners Association

Leadership

Salvador Espino

Salvador is the first immigrant city council electee. Sal is originally from Chihuahua, Juarez. City of Fort Worth's district 2, whose Hispanic population is of the 75 percent. Salvador Espino praised matricular cards as a contribution to security. Mr. Espino hopes to push for more local Latino leadership development, which he believes is especially needed at this time of Latino population growth. Espino is a successful real estate lawyer, with a home on a very nice street in the North Beverly Hills section on the North Side.

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Mr. Salvador Espino
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Immigration facts

Mexican Consul General Carlos Garcia de Alba stressed the Mexico's first consulate office in Fort Worth will do three things: issue passports, permits for temporarily bringing cars to Mexico and matricular consular cards. He said the office will process about 100 documents a day, most of them matricular cards.Many thousands of Mexicans, especially those in the country illegally, use the matricular cards as identification and to open bank accounts.

Steve McCraw, assistant director of the FBIs office of intelligence, testified before Congress in 2003 that matricular cards are not a reliable form of identification. Rosa Navejar, president and CEO of the Fort Worth Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, said Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Chase Bank, the Amon Carter Foundation and the CITY OF FORT WORTH DONATED a total of $180,000 to the project.Navejar said she also envisions future workforce training and financial literacy classes.

Moncrief also said Espino helped with the project. Garcia de Alba gave Espino the first matricular card to be issued from the office.

"Dallas News"
Mr. Espino said he hopes the initial Hispanic summit will lead to the creation of a regional council of Latino elected officials who can advocate for issues affecting the more than 1.6 million Latinos in North Texas.

"FT Weekly"
"Clark Kirby, former president of the North Texas Chapter...Not only are the illegals catered to and get special treatment, but this type of activity has a negative impact on the city, and the taxpayers are paying for it. "Hiring illegals is against the law, and the City of Fort Worth does nothing to weed out those who have no documentation that they are legal workers in this country,?¿½ he said. Fort Worth ?¿½is guilty of aiding and abetting the hiring of illegal aliens.?¿½

"Fort Worth City Council member Sal Espino said the law is murky as to whether the day laborers are independent contractors who are exempt from the employment verification rules. But he raised a larger issue, namely whether cities like Fort Worth should be enforcing national immigration laws. ?¿½Do the taxpayers of Fort Worth want the city to be engaged in immigration enforcement, and at what cost??¿½ Espino said. ?¿½Day laborers who paint houses are not the big issue in illegal workers.
When it was setting up its day labor center, Fort Worth officials purposefully picked a site that is hidden, off I-30 near the Trinity River, in a warehouse area away from homes, businesses, and casual traffic. Most residents don?¿½t even know the center exists or that it gets about $200,000 in public money to operate each year."

Facts

"we have formed a District 2 Advisory Council made up of community and business leaders from Northside/Diamond Hill Riverside, and Far NFW. These folks were selected and invite to serve on a volunteer basis by me...For Far NFW, these include representatives from Woodland Springs (Pauline Veness, Carlton Powell)...In one of my last emails to Far NFW, I asked for support for council pay to $30,000 to $40,000 a year..." E9-26