Ken Salazaar to lead Dept. of Interior (generations, legal, controversial)

[tigerlily]

Clip:
President-elect Barack Obama plans to name Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.) to lead the Interior Department -- an appointment that could put the brakes on several controversial energy development projects across the West.
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If confirmed, Salazar would head a department with a broad portfolio, including managing the troubled Bureau of Indian Affairs. Salazar, 53, would also oversee the nation's national parks and other large swaths of public lands, making him the country's foremost landlord. And he would be responsible for the Bureau of Land Management, which sets policy for oil and gas drilling, mining and other resource extraction on public land.
Obama picks Salazar as Interior secretary - Los Angeles Times

[TigerLily24]

I like it

[blacknight04]

Imagine what you would get if you posted this in the immigration forum. The angry smiles faces they would give you. LOL

[Katarina Witt]

Salazar's family has been in the US, legally, for generations.

[tigerlily]

Originally Posted by blacknight04

Imagine what you would get if you posted this in the immigration forum. The angry smiles faces they would give you. LOL

It was a good idea to make it a separate forum. I checked it out once and that was enough.

[bily4]

Originally Posted by Katiana

Salazar's family has been in the US, legally, for generations.

A finer point... lost in the anti-Hispanic babble unfortunately.

[TXboomerang]

Who will lead the Department of Exterior?

[suzco]

Originally Posted by Katiana

Salazar's family has been in the US, legally, for generations.

Originally Posted by bily4

A finer point... lost in the anti-Hispanic babble unfortunately.

Biography of Senator Ken Salazar

A fifth generation Coloradan, Senator Salazar's life reflects the American dream. His family settled in the American West before the United States was a country. After helping found the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1598, they planted roots in Colorado's San Luis Valley, where they have farmed and ranched the same land for five generations.

Senator Salazar's parents served in World War II - his mother in the War Department in Washington D.C. and his father as a staff sergeant in the United States Army. After the war, they returned to the San Luis Valley to farm, ranch, and raise a family.

On a remote ranch without electricity or telephone, Senator Salazar's parents taught their eight children the values of hard work, family, and faith. Thanks to their lessons, Senator Salazar and his seven brothers and sisters all became first generation college graduates. . .

[TigerLily24]

Originally Posted by suzco

Biography of Senator Ken Salazar

Thank you for posting this

[ovcatto]

"A fifth generation Coloradan, Senator Salazar's life reflects the American dream. His family settled in the American West before the United States was a country. After helping found the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1598, they planted roots in Colorado's San Luis Valley, where they have farmed and ranched the same land for five generations."

I don't know if it is an American dream as the basis for a James Michener novel, what an amazing story. And, to all those who mentioned the immigration folder, what an object lesson about the interconnectedness of Latin American and American heritage.