He Said It Out Loud
What to know: Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas acknowledged in leaked audio that the border crisis is “unsustainable.”
The TPPF take: The toll in death and human suffering is rising.
“The Biden administration calls Trump policies ‘irrational and inhumane,’” says TPPF’s Ken Oliver. “But its own approach is far worse—it empowers and enriches vicious transnational criminal organizations. We’re now left with the dilemma of either not prosecuting drug dealers who are killing people with fentanyl-laced heroin or prosecuting them, knowing that their families back home might be harmed. Insanity.”
For more on the deadly border crisis, click here.
Squatting
What to know: Property owners are being hurt by the evictions moratorium, a new Wall Street Journal piece reports.
The TPPF take: Lauren (McNeil) Terkel, one of our clients, is trying to hold onto some rental property her father left to her in Tyler. The evictions ban is making it tougher.
““My dad’s focus was on improving the neighborhood,” Lauren says. “And that’s my focus, too. But I can’t do that if I don’t have any control over my own property.”
For more on Lauren’s story, click here.
Ban on Chinese Solar
What to know: The U.S. has banned import of some solar panel materials from a Chinese company that is alleged to use forced labor.
The TPPF take: The ban is a good start.
“Amid the flurry of executive fiats and new agency rules, President Joe Biden’s ban on solar panel materials from certain Chinese companies is the first move we’ve seen that doesn’t put America dead last,” says TPPF’s Jason Isaac. “It should be followed by even stronger reforms to crack down on environmental recklessness and human rights abuses by our trading partners.”
For more on the ban on Chinese solar materials, click here.