As Senior Director of Engagement and Right on Immigration, Ken Oliver is at the center of the landmark Texas Public Policy Foundation initiative that highlights and champions policies that secure the border, restore the rule of law and fix and improve legal immigration to the United States.
In the wake of the recent mid-term elections, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has announced a new push for amnesty for the “11 million or however many’’ unauthorized immigrants currently residing illegally in the United States. In the context of the current chaos on our southern border Schumer’s demand, on the face of it, is...
As citizens and communities throughout the nation are fast realizing, the chaotic border policies of the Biden administration impose steep housing, transportation, health care, public safety and education costs on taxpayers. In addition to the fiscal hit, these costs also include tragic and unexpected impacts on American families and basic public services. In our South...
The Biden Administration has announced “joint actions with Mexico” to address the border crisis that has resulted in more than 2 million border encounters and hundreds of thousands of “gotaways” in the last year. The focus of its announcement was to declare that it would begin turning away Venezuelans who enter the U.S. illegally between...
The genesis of the horrific impact of the disastrously managed U.S. asylum system on American border security can be traced to 2010, the second year of the Obama administration. It was in January of that year that Obama ICE Director John Morton first directed the agency to routinely apply “catch and release” parole to asylum applicants entering...
KINGSVILLE—King Ranch is so iconic that it gets regular nods from the television hit “Yellowstone.” “Look at the King Ranch down in Texas …” patriarch John Dutton says in one episode. “They made such a name for themselves you can buy a damn truck with their brand on the seat.” And that’s true; the King...
The year 2021 saw the new administration in Washington unleash a historic crisis along America’s southern border with grave repercussions for the entire nation. Through a series of deliberate decisions that simultaneously enabled massive abuse of the US asylum system and sharply curtailed federal immigration law enforcement, in practically no time the Biden-Harris administration created...
Over 100,000 deaths from drug overdoses occurred in the United States between April of 2020 and April of this year. Synthetic opioids, primarily fentanyl, were responsible for nearly two-thirds of those deaths. Altogether, drug overdoses have now killed twice as many people as car accidents and gun violence combined. A crisis of this magnitude demands...
In the face of a historic border crisis due to the intentional reduction of federal immigration law enforcement, legislation has finally been passed in Texas to help fill the gap and better secure America’s southern border. Gov. Greg Abbott was expected to sign the bill on Friday, Sept. 17—as the crisis at the border intensifies,...
Weeks ago, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin unwittingly drew attention to the real crisis at the U.S. border — human trafficking carried out by ruthless criminal organizations. “We need to also recognize a significant percentage of people selling drugs in San Francisco, perhaps as many as half, are here from Honduras,” he said. “And...
The hope of employment is one of the main reasons unauthorized migrants continue to enter the United States. In Texas, undocumented workers make up 8.5% of the state’s total labor force. In addition to violating the law, employers who knowingly hire unauthorized migrants often take advantage of them by paying extremely low wages, refusing to...
What do you think of when you hear about El Paso, Texas? I was born and raised there, so when I think of El Paso, I think of home. I think of the early mornings when my family and I would cross the border to go to church with my abuelitos at La Primera Bautista...
We think of an invasion as an armed assault on a nation. In our history classes, we were taught about instances like the Nazi invasions of neighboring European countries, the ancient Roman Empire’s onslaught of surrounding nations, or maybe North Korea’s attempt to impose on her southern counterpart. But recently, several notable Republicans and conservatives...