On offense: Last week, the House passed a border security and enforcement bill that addresses nearly every policy recommendation provided by a conservative coalition led, in part, by The Heritage Foundation. 

• The Secure the Border Act would end “catch-and-release,” expand penalties for visa overstays, reduce incentives for illegal immigration by mandating nationwide E-Verify, close legal loopholes, resume wall construction, and more. 
• “Whatever we do, we need to act quickly. The time to restore order to the mounting chaos at our border is running out,” warns Simon Hankinson, senior research fellow in our Border Security and Immigration Center. Read why here. 
• The Biden administration, meanwhile, is focusing resources on processing illegal crossers rather than on securing the border and preventing illegal crossings. Read more here. 

Watch: To see just what President Biden’s open-border policies have unleashed, The Daily Signal was on the scene with drone cameras to capture the events. Watch the footage here. 

Fiction: The Left is in hysterics over an alleged rash of book bans by school libraries. It turns out to be a big lie. 

• Heritage found that 74% of the books that PEN America said were banned from school libraries are actually available.  

“Manufacturing a book-banning crisis where none exists only serves to undermine public discourse,” says Jay Greene, senior research fellow in the Center for Education Policy. Read more here. 

Shocking: President Biden wants two-thirds of new cars to be EVs within a decade. But the U.S. can’t get the materials needed to do that, the electric grid couldn’t handle that many EVs, and China would be the huge beneficiary. 

• Biden’s EV push reminds EJ Antoni, a research fellow in the Center for Data Analysis, of a soliloquy by Don Quixote: short on facts, long on rhetoric, and filled with unrealistic expectations.  

Read more. 

Facts first: The Media Research Center gave a Bulldog Award to Daily Signal senior reporter Mary Margaret Olohan for her work as a pro-life reporter. 

• The MRC cited Olohan’s work chronicling acts of violence against pro-life crisis pregnancy centers across the country and for giving voice to Mark Houck, a pro-life Catholic father who was targeted by the Biden Justice Department. 

Follow Olohan’s reporting here. 

• Even Democrats Realize Biden’s Title 42 Blunder Is About To Be a Massive Disaster—Simon Hankinson

• Democrats’ Bills Are About Supreme Court Harassment, Not Ethics—Thomas Jipping 
• Time for U.S., Japan to Make Case for Adding South Korea to Group of 7 Nations—Anthony B. Kim 
• What Does Effective National Security Look Like?—Kevin Roberts, Ph.D. 
• Mark Helprin and the Survival of the American Nation—Richard M. Reinsch II 
• How a Debt Ceiling With Backbone Would Help America—Peter St. Onge and Richard Stern 
• Free Enterprise and the Common Good: Economic Science and Political–Economic Art—Richard M. Reinsch II 
• Meghan and Harry’s Plan To Destroy the British Monarchy Didn’t Count on This Happening—Nile Gardiner, Ph.D. 
• The Hypocrisy of the Left on Energy Policy—Diana Furchtgott-Roth 
• Biden’s ‘Transgender’ Rule Mandating Schools Treat Biological Males as Females Gets Tested—Sarah Parshall Perry and Caroline Heckman 

The Daily Signal’s Mary Margaret Olohan and colleague Tim Kennedy were in El Paso, Texas, last week when Title 42 expired. Using a drone, they captured videos of the mass wave of illegal immigration. Their exclusive footage reached millions of people. Watch here and here. 

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