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...
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...
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...
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...
Although President Donald Trump’s return to the Oval Office brings renewed optimism for border security efforts, Texas legislators should still double down on their efforts in this regard and build upon the momentum from last session’s attempt at implementing a Texas “Engel List” for the sake of our sovereignty and economy. The Northern Triangle Enhanced...
Designating Mexican cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations is the first honest step Washington has taken on this issue in decades. On President Donald J. Trump’s first day in office, he issued an executive order designating human and drug trafficking cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs). This week, the other shoe is expected to drop, as the State...
The Trump Administration sees very clearly the true nature of the cartels’ increasing threat to our sovereignty and security. Among his first actions as President, Donald Trump signed an executive order designating Mexican cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Shortly after, the White House highlighted the cartel’s collusion with the Mexican Government and stated that “The...
The shock for the informed is not that Trump declared the Mexican state a narco-regime, but that it didn’t happen years ago. “The Mexican drug-trafficking organizations have an intolerable alliance with the government of Mexico,” announced the White House last month, buried in the official statement on US tariffs on that country’s goods. The declaration...
In its coverage of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s recent trip to the White House, Fox News acknowledged the shift on display. Where the Biden administration threw open our borders, and fought Texas’s attempts to enforce the law, the Trump administration is embracing Abbott’s actions. Abbott’s deputizing the Texas National Guard to help the Border Patrol is just the next...
The undeclared war against the Mexican criminal cartels went hot again last Monday, when cartel gunmen opened fire on U.S. Border Patrol agents in Fronton, Texas, during an illegal smuggling operation. Mexican cartels, terror organizations by any reasonable definition, now feel so emboldened they are shooting at American law enforcement on U.S. soil. This is precisely...
The framers added the Fourteenth Amendment’s ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof’ clause for an important, specific reason. In his first hours in office, President Donald J. Trump issued an executive order curtailing the practice of unlimited birthright citizenship. Many think the Fourteenth Amendment calls for citizenship for everyone born in America. Left-wing attorneys general in 18...
The death toll continues to rise in the California wildfires that have burned through the Los Angeles area in recent weeks. Now it appears that a suspect arrested near one of the fires “with a flamethrower” allegedly attempting to start more fires is an illegal immigrant. What’s more, his illegal status will be to his...