Immigration

Biden Unleashed An Illegal Immigration Whirlwind And Texas Is Paying The Price

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...

October 17, 2022

Immigration

Border Security is National Security

Growing up in a small border town, we weren’t accustomed to large volumes of crime, such as road chases, home break-ins, damaged property, large amounts of drugs, and human smuggling rings in our own backyard. The morning chatter from my neighbors used to be ranchers looking for lost livestock or congratulating the local basketball team...

October 14, 2022

Immigration

America’s Dangerously Mismanaged Asylum System

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...

May 31, 2022

Immigration

Biden’s Border Policies are Fueling the Fentanyl Crisis in America

A 13-year-old child in Connecticut collapsed during gym class and was rushed to the hospital; he died two days later of what doctors concluded was a fentanyl overdose. Two other students at the school were also rushed to the hospital over similar concerns. When school officials investigated, they found 40 bags of powdered fentanyl hidden...

February 23, 2022

Energy & Environment

Department of Homeland Security distracted by climate hysteria

Turmoil in the Middle East, an invigorated Communist China, and an increasingly aggressive Russia—these are all very real concerns. But the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has instead designated climate change as one of the greatest threats Americans face. Following the lead of President Joe Biden’s “Climate Day” executive order, DHS released its first ever...

February 17, 2022

Immigration

How Porous Borders Fuel Human Trafficking in the United States

Slavery is alive and well today all across the world, and it comes in the form of human trafficking. January is National Human Trafficking Awareness Month. Human trafficking is today’s form of slavery as men, women, and children are recruited and exploited by being forced into labor against their will. There are many forms of...

January 11, 2022

Immigration

Texas Pushes Back on Biden Border Crisis

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...

January 4, 2022

Family

On Veterans Day, I Remember Why I Served

Thank you for your service. It’s a five-word sentence that sounds so simple, and to the person saying it, it is. But to the person on the receiving end of the compliment, there is just never the right response. I knew I wanted to be a Marine when I was 7 years old. After 9/11,...

November 9, 2021

Immigration

Walls Work, and President Joe Biden Agrees

In a little over one week, the small town of Del Rio, Texas saw more than 15,000 migrants surge their border. Thanks to the quick response from Texas, the migrant-made encampment has been cleared, but that does not mean the crisis is averted. Border Patrol sectors across Texas continue to apprehend and rescue migrants attempting...

September 28, 2021

K-12 Education

Yes, You Are Smart Enough: Empowering Students through High Learning Standards and Quality Education

Woke society continues to take aim at the nation’s education systems, insisting that minority students are simply incapable of meeting the academic standards that other students are expected to reach. One example: Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed Senate Bill 744 into law in July. The governor’s deputy communications director said in an email that suspending the reading, writing and math proficiency requirements...

September 10, 2021

Taxes & Spending

A “Vehicle Miles Traveled” Tax is a Bad Idea  

As if the $1.2 trillion “infrastructure” bill in Congress could not be worse, a closer look shows that among other bad ideas there is $125 million allocated  to fund the creation of pilot programs to evaluate a federal vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax. The idea behind the VMT tax is to tax drivers for every...

August 19, 2021

Energy & Environment

Biden Props Up OPEC while the American Energy Industry and Consumers Suffer

Gas prices are climbing back up since pandemic shutdowns and travel restrictions crippled the industry, and Americans are feeling the price at the pump. This week, President Joe Biden’s White House, claiming to want lower gas prices, urged OPEC to get back to pre-pandemic production. That’s right. The president of the United States, the global...

August 13, 2021