Thank you for the opportunity to testify in support of House Bill 20, which would create a Texas Border Protection Unit under the control of the Texas Department of Public Safety. My name is Joshua Treviño, and I am the Chief of Intelligence and Research at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a nonprofit and nonpartisan research institution in Austin, Texas. In my role, much of my work focuses on the violence in Mexico, and the reclamation of Texas’s sovereignty under the Constitution.
Testimony on Substitute Language for Plank 101, the School Choice Plank
The substitute language for Plank 101 is as follows: “Promoting Parental Choice: We support the right of parents to enroll their child in a traditional public school, private school, charter school, or to homeschool as they choose and believe all state funding for K-12 education should follow the child. We oppose any attempt to regulate...