Border Crisis
What to know: Federal officials say they’ll build another central processing facility in El Paso to hold migrant families and children.
The TPPF take: Ideologues in office are undermining immigration laws in El Paso.
“Unfortunately, El Paso area law enforcement, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection, cannot always count on having local leadership on their side when it comes to acting in the best interest of their departments or the citizens they are supposed to serve,” says TPPF’s Reneé Jackson-Armendariz. “Instead of addressing the detrimental effects that the border crisis has on El Paso locals, Mayor Oscar Leeser encourages local citizens to be welcoming to people entering the country illegally.”
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Pausing the Pause
What to know: A federal judge has struck down President Biden’s “pause” on granting oil and gas leases on federal lands.
The TPPF take: The Biden administration’s goal is to wreck the U.S. oil and gas industry.
“Under Biden’s attempts to phase out natural gas, petroleum, and coal, the prices we pay for energy will go up,” says TPPF’s Jason Isaac. “Because everything we do, from the moment our alarms go off every morning to when we turn off the lights at night, depends on energy, these higher prices will be a heavy burden for American families. Expensive energy means producing, marketing, transporting, and selling goods and services will also become more expensive, creating less a ripple effect than a tidal wave.”
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…And The Law Won
What to know: President Biden’s agenda keeps getting blocked by pesky laws and even the U.S. Constitution. Courts are telling the president he can’t rewrite the law with executive action.
The TPPF take: In just one example, a federal judge halted a COVID-19 relief program that sought to award funds to businesses based on the race of the owner.
“As the Supreme Court ruled in 1976, ‘The central purpose of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is the prevention of official conduct discriminating on the basis of race,” says TPPF’s Robert Henneke. “This is nothing more than a naked discriminatory preference that turns a disaster relief program into a politicized spoils system.”
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