San Benito

I just wanted to get that off my chest.

Um, this New York Times article highlights people like Jessica Cantu, who runs a coffee shop in San Benito, Texas, who cast her first ballot in twenty twenty-four for Donald Trump.

Two years later, her brother was deported.

She feels angry and betrayed.

I always do.

Where you from, anyway, Pendle? I was born in San Benito.

Oh, in the Rio

Grande,

Yeah.

So I started my career as a high school physics and biology teacher at a title one school, very close to the border between the United, the Southern border of the United States and Mexico and a little town called San Benito.

Uh, it's where, where Freddie Fender is from, if you are familiar with country music and it's kind of between Harlingen and, um, Brownsville.

And, um, uh, most of my students were learning English in school or had learned English in school.

And they would have been considered English learners because most of my students were Spanish dominant Colombian students.

students at that time.

And so I used a lot of the same techniques that I did in the classes that I taught in San Benito, but my students came from an incredibly different socioeconomic background and experiential background.

But many of them were given full scholarships to go to small liberal arts schools in the northeast of the United States because they brought in valued diversity, mostly for like U.S. news and world report rankings, but also these incredibly diverse.

Yes.

We go to San Benito.

All right.

We were two for two.

How about we knock this out of the park? We talk about the San Benito kicker.

Yeah.

Francisco Barrientos.

In this week's Dudes Rock Dude of the Week, San Benito kicker Francisco Barrientos went six for six on field goals.

Sarah?

Jose in San Benito, Texas is asking for prayers through Jesus that he grants him the strength to continue through his master's program and for an end to the unwanted retaliation that he is finding at work.

He asked for peace and tranquility at all times.

Julie in Middleton, Wisconsin needs prayers for her sister-in-law who is going through chemo treatments.

The sheriff department says the victims are a 50-year-old man, a 29-year-old man, a 28-year-old woman, and a 67-year-old woman.

San Benito b- uh, Benito police say that responded to an area around 2:00 Sunday morning after a passerby reported a person on a ground on Rosso Lane near San Benito.

When officers arrived, they found the 50-year-old man dead from-

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