Surrendering Sovereignty
What to know: Because of Biden administration policies, illegal border crossings have surged to their highest levels in a decade.
The TPPF take: Illegal immigration threatens South Texans and their way of life, as members of the Border Security Coalition learned on a recent trip.
“What we learned across 36 hours in the county — talking with the sheriff, talking with Border Patrol officers and Border Patrol veterans, and most of all talking to the men and women who have made their lives in this part of Texas — was shocking, even to me,” says TPPF’s Josh Trevino. “Illegal immigration has come and gone for years here. But now it’s different. Now it’s existential.”
For more on the South Texas border trip, click here.
He Knows
What to know: Guatemala’s president blames U.S. President Joe Biden for the surge in child immigrants surging at the U.S. border.
The TPPF take: He’s not wrong.
“With the termination of the Trump administration’s Migrant Protection Protocols, migrants can now return to the practice of illegally entering the U.S. and, if caught, they can make a (most likely spurious) claim for asylum, with the confidence they will be released into the interior of the U.S. and be given a shot at the American Dream,” says TPPF’s John Hostettler. “The administration is standing down—and Americans (as well as migrants themselves) will suffer for it.”
For more on the Biden administration policies driving this surge, click here.
Well, That’s a Little Dark
What to know: According to the Wall Street Journal, solar power projects are “increasingly drawing opposition from environmental activists and local residents who say they are ardent supporters of clean energy.”
The TPPF take: Solar power generation is much harder on the environment than natural gas generation.
“Given that solar facilities use roughly 10 times the amount of land to produce the same quantity of electricity as a natural gas power plant, including the land used to extract and transport the gas, the 20 GW of existing and planned solar generation in Texas will use up several times more land than the
infrastructure for our entire natural gas generation fleet,” says TPPF’s Brent Bennett.
For more on solar and the environment, click here.