Home
  • Commentaries
  • Videos
  • Podcasts
  • Columnists
  • The Daily Cannon
Filters
Border Security

Securing the Border Must Come First

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...

January 24, 2025
Border Security

Trump Must Immediately Build On Texas’ Successful Border Work

Texas has faithfully executed the law and played a vital role in national security — a role the state must now maintain and reinforce. The hard lessons Texas learned at its border have led to the creation of the largest state effort in national security in our nation’s history. Now is not the time to...

January 13, 2025
Border Security

Attacking Trump means defending Biden’s failures

We can’t let the left forget the truth — Donald Trump’s policies will make Americans safer, more secure, and more prosperous. The memo appears to have gone out, and the legacy media has pivoted in unison to launch a new line of attack against the incoming Trump administration. The key buzzword is “cruel.” Don’t let...

January 13, 2025
Border Security

Trump can fix the illegal immigration crisis and make them pay for it, too

Illegal immigrants get nearly $9,000 a year each in subsidies from US taxpayers but Trump can change that. Republican South Dakota Sen. John Thune, the incoming Senate majority leader, announced that defense and border security will be the Senate’s first order of business when the new Congress convenes in January. Using the reconciliation process, Thune aims to...

December 9, 2024
Border Security

Securing the border: La Frontera Esta Cerrada

Texas can continue to safeguard its citizens—and its sovereignty, an appeals court has ruled. Last week the great State of Texas secured another victory in court. The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Texas has the right to build its concertina-wire border barrier, and to continue to deter illegal immigration into Texas, without federal agents tampering...

December 3, 2024
Border Security

Homan is a great choice to enforce immigration law

Border security must be prerequisite to any reform. President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to bring on Tom Homan, the former head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as border czar is a powerful step in the right direction for border security. Mr. Homan has a history of tough, no-nonsense enforcement, and his expertise is needed now more than ever. But...

November 19, 2024
Border Security

The World, at America’s Doorstep, Awaits Election Results

As Election Day approaches, many of us are closely watching not only the presidential race but also the implications for our border, our security, and our national sovereignty. The Nov. 5 election is intensifying urgency among migrants in Mexico and beyond, who see this as their last chance to reach the U.S. under a “friendly”...

November 4, 2024
Border Security

Fixing The Border Crisis Starts With Identifying Mexican Cartels As Terrorist Organizations

The border crisis is not primarily an immigration problem, it’s a cartel problem. The ongoing border crisis has raised an important question among policymakers and average citizens: Are we dealing with an immigration problem or a security problem? Each lens requires a different response. But the fact is, the border crisis is not primarily an...

October 18, 2024
Border Security

The Biggest Threat in the Border Crisis

On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General released an explosive report revealing that CBP, ICE, and TSA are allowing immigrants entry into the U.S. and to board domestic flights without verifying their identity and vetting them for potential threats. “Under current processes, CBP and ICE cannot ensure they are keeping high-risk noncitizens without identification from...

October 3, 2024
Border Security

Harris really does have a magic wand for the border

The most brazen claim Vice President Kamala Harris made at the U.S.-Mexico border last week was that to fix the border, we must elect her—as if she’s powerless to do anything now. Speaking in Arizona, Harris acknowledged, “there are consequential issues at stake in this election. And one is the security of our border.” She even admitted,...

October 3, 2024
Border Security

The Border Crisis is Now an Everytown Crisis

In New York City, police are now targeting the violent Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua. According to the NYPD, the gang is now “actively recruiting gang members in migrant shelters where guns and drugs have been smuggled inside via food cartons.” NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell says the border crisis is driving the...

October 2, 2024
Border Security

We Know the Price of Liberty, and We’re Willing to Pay It

I was playing hooky from second grade, home “sick” when it happened. The phone rang and my aunt, who was crying, demanded I put my grandma on the phone. She was bringing me a plate of pancakes when she turned the channel and dropped the plate, her eyes swelling as the glass smashed on the...

September 10, 2024
Load More
results for
Sort by: |

Sign up for the Daily Cannon to get it right to your inbox:

Texas Public Policy Foundation social network links

Phone Number and Address

About The Cannon
| 512.472.2700 |
901 Congress Avenue,
Austin, Texas 78701

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Copyright © 2026
Texas Public Policy Foundation