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When the Walls Come Tumbling Down

“The crisis has already begun,” former U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan pointed out during the Texas Public Policy Foundation livestream event, “When the Walls Come Tumbling Down: The Coming Border Crisis.” Morgan joined TPPF Senior Fellow in Border Security Josh Jones and TPPF Executive Director Kevin Roberts to discuss the quickly...

February 18, 2021
Criminal Justice

The Future of Immigration Law Enforcement

By Alley McIntosh and Ken Oliver The future of U.S. immigration law enforcement was the focus of the Right on Immigration panel held during the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s 2021 Policy Orientation. Taking place just days before the change of administration in Washington, the panel was moderated by Right on Immigration Senior Director Ken Oliver...

February 2, 2021
Immigration

Immigration smears hinder necessary policy solutions

Our country has clearly become more divided during recent years. From politics to the pandemic to religious beliefs, this is evident in all areas of our lives. Media stories of public discourse and events appear to further drive the tensions between the left and the right. Even facts and truthful reporting are now often disputed....

December 29, 2020
Immigration

Biden wants to dismantle immigration law

Joe Biden has promised that if he’s elected president, he will set in motion on Day One the largest dismantling of U.S. immigration law enforcement in the history of the republic. On the very day he’s sworn in as president, the oath for which includes a constitutional obligation to “take care that the Laws be faithfully executed,”...

October 27, 2020
Immigration

The Fight Against Human Trafficking: Finding Consensus in Polarized Times

As election day approaches, the polarization of our political climate has been on full display. It’s easy to fall victim to the temptation to lose hope that our increasingly divided electorate will ever be able to reach consensus on many of the most challenging issues faced by our nation. Yet, as Americans, we are united...

August 31, 2020
Immigration

U.S. Border Security Gains Teeter in the Balance

While the coronavirus pandemic and the upcoming election overwhelmingly dominate the nation’s attention, other critical challenges facing the nation continue to be dangerously ignored. One such issue is our country’s chronically dysfunctional asylum system which, a little more than a year after having provoked one of the most severe crisis on our southwestern border in...

August 26, 2020
Immigration

Illegal Immigration Mars Massive Texas Housing Development

Though illegal immigration has come to a virtual standstill in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, decades of dysfunction in America’s immigration system continue to have deleterious effects in communities throughout the nation. As is often the case, developments in Texas, which shares almost two-thirds of the U.S. border with Mexico, provide some of the...

June 9, 2020
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