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Ammon Blair

Ammon Blair is a Senior Fellow for the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s ‘Secure & Sovereign Texas’ Initiative, where he advocates for effective border security and immigration policies that protect the sovereignty and safety of Texas and the nation. Ammon has over 10 years of experience as a U.S. Border Patrol Agent, serving in the Rio Grande Valley Sector, one of the busiest and most challenging areas of the southwest border.

Border Security

Cartels Are Exploiting Mexico’s Cattle Trade As Americans Pay More For Beef

Traffickers use falsified paperwork and black-market identification tags to launder smuggled animals into legitimate Mexican commerce. This week, the United States began reopening its southern border to Mexican cattle after New World Screwworm forced the U.S. Department of Agriculture to close livestock ports along the border. Douglas, Arizona, reopened first, across from Agua Prieta, Sonora....

August 25, 2026

Foreign Policy

While Mexico defends ‘sovereignty,’ cartels import a flesh-eating parasite into Texas

Cartels move an estimated 800,000 cattle per year from Central America into Mexico using fake ear tags and falsified records. As the New World screwworm returns to American soil for the first time since its eradication 60 years ago, Texas is now on the front line of Mexico’s threat to U.S. sovereignty and national security. The return...

June 17, 2026

Border Security

Iran’s proxy war has crossed oceans and is now knocking on America’s door

The Al-Saadi case shows how Tehran’s proxies exploit cartel corridors, criminal networks, and migration pipelines. Americans still debate Iran through an outdated lens. We speak of war as something that starts with bombs, troop deployments, or congressional declarations. Yet Iran has waged asymmetric war against the United States and the West since 1979 — through terrorism, proxy...

May 26, 2026

Border Security

Mamdami Demands U.S. Immigration Policy Start Obeying Islam

Mamdani invoked Islamic doctrine to define civic obligation and delegitimize lawful, constitutional authority. At New York City’s Interfaith Breakfast last week, Mayor Zohran Mamdani did not merely criticize federal immigration enforcement — he reframed it as a religious and moral transgression. Invoking the Islamic doctrine of hijra, he urged New Yorkers to “stand alongside the stranger” in permanent, unqualified solidarity, elevating prophetic example above...

February 13, 2026

Border Security

Mass immigration is economic warfare and few Americans understand why

Mexico received $64 billion from US last year while some countries depend on remittances for 25% of GDP. The State Department’s recent decision to freeze visa processing for nationals from more than 75 countries — including Somalia, Iran and Russia — reflects a growing recognition in Washington: large-scale migration is no longer viewed solely as a humanitarian...

January 26, 2026

Border Security

China, Cartels Make Inroads as U.S. Judges Fumble Cases

Over the past week, a chain of decisions from Beijing to the Rio Grande has revealed how economic policy, narcotics flows, and national security now move on the same axis. On November 4, the White House issued an executive order cutting the fentanyl tariff on Chinese imports to 10 percent. Within twenty-four hours, China’s Finance Ministry...

November 5, 2025

Public Safety

Democrats once undermined the Army. Now they undermine the nation.

Their post-Civil War ‘Redeemer’ ancestors smeared troops as despots and ‘usurpers.’ Today’s left smears ICE and Border Patrol as fascists — different century, same betrayal. America again stands on the edge of betrayal, watching mobs assault federal officers while judges call it “restraint.” This is not new. Between 1876 and 1878, the same script played...

October 23, 2025

Border Security

Cartels are now ‘unlawful combatants.’ About time.

For decades, the US fought crime while the cartels fought war. Trump’s designation ends the fantasy and gives America the legal authority to strike back — hard. President Donald Trump has finally named the enemy: Mexican drug cartels. Declaring them unlawful combatants and recognizing a “non-international armed conflict” marks one of the most consequential national...

October 7, 2025

Border Security

Never Again Means Action: Why We Must Treat the Cartels as the Terrorists They Are

Each year on September 11th, the nation pauses to honor the lives lost—ringing bells, reading names, and recalling faces forever etched in our collective memory. But remembrance without resolve is hollow. The pledge of “never again” demands action: fortifying the legal, geographic, and bureaucratic seams that our adversaries exploit so that grief never again revisits...

September 11, 2025

Border Security

Throughout the country, the very concept of ‘citizenship’ is under siege

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. … As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.” —Abraham Lincoln, 1862 The storm is here. And today, the most radical threat to our Constitution doesn’t come from a foreign army or a global treaty, it comes from...

July 31, 2025

Public Safety

The Sirens Never Came: Rebuilding the Texas State Guard for Readiness

At 4:03 a.m. on July 4, the Guadalupe River breached its banks in Kerr County. The flood came fast and silent—crashing through windows, sweeping entire homes off their foundations, ripping families from their beds. At least 132 people are confirmed dead. Nearly 100 remain missing. The Hill Country has become a graveyard of wreckage and...

July 29, 2025

Border Security

The National Guard has defended our borders before

In 1916, after Pancho Villa’s deadly raid on Columbus, New Mexico, President Woodrow Wilson mobilized nearly 110,000 National Guard troops to the southern border. Their mission was clear: repel cross-border incursions, restore order, and secure the American homeland. Four decades later, President Dwight D. Eisenhower faced a different threat—a mass illegal migration crisis, following the...

June 2, 2025