New York Mayor Eric Adams continues to rail on about the mess he thinks Texas Governor Greg Abbott has visited on his city with the busing of illegal immigrants, but I hear nothing from him about the main culprit, which is the total abdication of duty to protect our borders on the part of the […]

Let’s be very honest and clear about what is happening on the U. S./Mexico border and who is responsible.  Since March, now well over 100,000 illegal immigrants have, in effect, been granted asylum who knows where in the United States, and this doesn’t count the thousands that simply “got away”; ICE has been precluded from […]

Obviously, the situation along the U. S. border with Mexico has gotten a lot worse and ground zero of this crisis is the Texas border.  And while most progressive open border enthusiasts would like you to believe that these illegal crossings are populated primarily by the “huddled masses yearning to breathe free”, the reality is […]

It’s difficult to be around discussions involving immigration policy for very long without hearing the famous quote in 1999 from Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman: “It’s just obvious you can’t have free immigration and a welfare state.”  And many, if not most people assume that Friedman was indifferent as to which side of the issue […]

We’ve had a daily debate for several months about a national emergency at the border, President Trump declared one, then survived a veto override vote by Congress on his declaration, only to witness over the past several weeks a border crisis which is much worse than the one we thought we had and for different […]

President Trump is getting a lot of good advice from his party leadership and his true support base that he needs to drop the notion of a national emergency for his border wall, accept the additional $1.4 billion for the structure that is in the approved budget as a victory, and re-allocate available funds at […]

The Houston Chronicle devotes quite a bit of space regularly in bashing President Trump on just about everything,  particularly his border security policy, but in a recent editorial, the Chronicle made a few suggestions buried in more Trump criticism that I can actually agree with.  The editorial board references favorably Bush Institute fellows Matthew Rooney […]

President Trump has threatened to shut down the government if he doesn’t get an acceptable budget bill, mainly one that honors his campaign pledge to complete “the wall” on the Mexican border.  Whether or not this is good politics one could argue that the voters typically blame Republicans for any government shutdown, but on the […]

Somewhere in the big mess that is the demagoguery, tragedy, and confusion at the border with Mexico there is a serious conversation to be had among adults who can bring themselves to rise above the sound bites and the talk show points.  Unfortunately, I can’t find any of these people.  Daniel Henninger of the Wall […]

All Americans, not only in the States most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public services they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That’s why […]