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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
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Trump’s immigration reset is lifting wages and forcing real economic reform

It’s illuminating when politicians speak the truth accidentally, letting voters know what they only say in private to their colleagues or big donors. A video recently resurfaced of New York Democratic Rep. Yvette Clarke saying that her Brooklyn district could “absorb a significant number of these (Haitian) migrants,” because, she continued, “I need more people...

July 31, 2025
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Texas can Avoid Europe’s Migration-Crime Problems

During a recent trip to Europe for a political philosophy symposium, I was both impressed by the young leaders I met and concerned by the situations they were describing in their various home countries throughout the old continent. Young men and women, fluent in geo-politics and global current events alongside four to five different languages,...

July 22, 2025
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Right to Raid

While the media focuses on the disturbing incidences of rioting and looting in Los Angeles, it is avoiding telling the public the real story behind the headlines. The left wants you to believe the Trump Administration is carrying out random “raids” targeting hard working migrants who simply came to America to pursue a better quality...

June 13, 2025
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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
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Media can blur faces, but not the effects of illegal immigration

Producers at CBS, CNN and MSNBC took the time to blur the faces of child rapists, murderers and other violent criminals whose details were posted on signs lining the lawn at the White House last week. But it was a telling win for the Trump administration—because the media’s narrative of “innocent” illegal immigrants being wronged...

May 12, 2025
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While Washington Ignored the Border, Texas Stood in the Gap

For the past four years, as the Biden administration stepped aside while illegal immigrants surged through the U.S. southern border, it was Texas who stood in the gap to defend the nation’s sovereignty. Between 2021 and 2025, Texas taxpayers have paid billions to send Texas National Guard soldiers, Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers,...

April 21, 2025
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Rebuilding The Warrior Class: Texas Can Lead With Military Fitness Reform

At a time when the Pentagon is finally waking up to the physical collapse of our armed forces, Texas has a unique opportunity to lead. In a March 12 directive, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sounded the alarm: Military standards have eroded dangerously. “Our adversaries are not growing weaker,” he wrote. “Our tasks are not growing...

April 16, 2025
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Texas United: The New Consensus on Border Security and Immigration

In the past few years, the immigration debate has undergone a significant shift in Texas. What was once portrayed as a divisive partisan issue has increasingly become a point of consensus among Texans across the political spectrum. Recent polling from the University of Houston reveals what many of us have long sensed: Texans of all...

April 14, 2025
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Nothing But a 287g Thang

The Immigration and Nationality Act contains a powerful border enforcement tool known as the 287g program. It allows ICE “to delegate to state and local law enforcement officers the authority to perform specified immigration officer functions under the agency’s direction and oversight.”  Those functions include arresting, detaining, and deporting illegal aliens. Right now, to be...

April 11, 2025
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Taking Back Control: Why 287(g) Is Critical for Texas’ Future

For too long, Texas has been held hostage to the whims of federal immigration policy. When Washington decides to enforce our laws, Texans breathe easier. When it doesn’t, our communities suffer—bearing the costs of unchecked illegal immigration, cartel violence, and overwhelmed public services. This cycle of vulnerability must end. President Trump’s January 20th executive order...

April 2, 2025
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Trump has Mexico on the ropes

Trump has taken an accurate measure of the Mexican regime. What remains is to put his vision into action. An extraordinary episode in the two centuries of Mexican-American relations unfolded on Feb. 27, as aircraft of the Mexican state flew northward to various locations across the United States. They carried within them 29 of the most-wanted Mexican-cartel...

March 19, 2025
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