The U.S. is said, by the Biden administration Treasury Department, to be three weeks from an historic default on federal bond payments. This is due to the federal government spending $1.4 trillion more than it’s taking in this year in taxes, thus exceeding the statutory debt ceiling of $31.4 trillion. But Democratic President Joe Biden doesn’t...
The Mexican Migration Project began with a simple question: which Mexicans go where in the United States? It seems a simple and obvious inquiry, but it is mostly ignored in the U.S. public discourse. The tremendous heterogeneity of Mexico and the Mexicans, so evident on the ground, is subsumed in analysis that either categorizes all...
House Bill 3782 (2023)* proposes to establish a Border Security Advisory Council to advise the Legislature and the governor, or the governor’s designee, on homeland security issues impacting the security of the Texas–Mexico border and on streamlining statewide border security activities and initiatives. The bill would also create the Border Protection Task Force to provide...