HB 20 Testimony Before the Texas House State Affairs Committee

April 18, 2023

Joshua Treviño

Joshua S. Treviño is the Chief Transformation Officer at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, in which he explores pathways for future Foundation action and develops forecasts for Texas and the nation. Prior to his service as CTO, he was Vice President for Strategy at the Illinois Policy Institute in Chicago. Prior to that, he was Vice President for Communications at the Texas Public Policy Foundation for six years. His other experience includes service as Vice President for Policy at the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco, independent media consultancy, consultancy at Booz Allen Hamilton, service as both a speechwriter and an international-health professional in the Administration of George W. Bush, and service as a United States Army officer. He lives in the Austin, Texas, region with his wife and two sons.

Thank you for the opportunity to testify in support of House Bill 20, which would create a Texas Border Protection Unit under the control of the Texas Department of Public Safety. My name is Joshua Treviño, and I am the Chief of Intelligence and Research at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a nonprofit and nonpartisan research institution in Austin, Texas. In my role, much of my work focuses on the violence in Mexico, and the reclamation of Texas’s sovereignty under the Constitution.

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