Our Broken Asylum System

What to Know: The Biden administration plans to overhaul its asylum process for migrants at the southern U.S. border—which could further exacerbate the crisis there.

The TPPF Take: America’s asylum system is dangerously mismanaged.

“We may grant that several thousands of those cases, even several tens of thousands on the entire docket, are those of people with legitimate claims to facing deadly political, religious, ethnic or race-related persecution in their home countries,” says TPPF’s Ken Oliver. “But the vast majority are simply using the façade of an asylum claim as the easiest means to obtain a fresh start in the U.S.”

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Poverty

What to Know: Despite decades of effort and trillions of dollars spent, the poverty rate in the U.S. has barely budged since President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a “War on Poverty” in 1964.

The TPPF Take: The War on Poverty failed because we lost sight of the goal.

“In 1920, Owen Lovejoy, president of the National Conference of Social Work, set a new task for the increasing number of social workers—they would become ‘social engineers,’ who would create ‘a divine order on earth as it is in heaven,’” says TPPF’s Vance Ginn. “Who has time to worry about that man under the bridge when we’re remaking the world?”

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Marx Wearing Business Casual

What to Know: More and more cities are being governed by “democratic socialists.”

The TPPF Take: That’s because more and more, socialism is at the heart of Democratic policies.

“It is in Karl Marx’s ideology that the failures of the Left are rooted,” says TPPF’s Austin Prochko. “This is not to say that all progressives are Marxists or socialists, although many are. But rather, the core of Marx’s philosophy has influenced, shaped, and determined the Left’s thought processes for more than century.”

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