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America Shouldn’t Resettle Palestinians
- As if they haven’t done enough damage to the U.S. with their open-borders agenda, progressives now call for America to resettle Palestinian “refugees” from the Israel-Hamas war.
- The Biden administration is the arsonist that burned down our humanitarian border and immigration system.
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports encountering over 7.4 million inadmissible aliens from over 160 countries nationwide since President Biden took office Jan. 20, 2021.
- Consequently, America now faces growing terrorist threats within our homeland.
- The many sizable pro-Hamas demonstrations in the U.S. in the past week have shown us that the Palestinian population has no interest in assimilating into American culture and governance, or in expressing loyalty to America or American allies.
- America is in no position to take on additional migrants from the Gaza Strip or anywhere else and must strongly and successfully reject this demand.
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Trans Access to Girls’ Restrooms and Related Legal Claims Fail in Federal Court
- A federal district court in Idaho just declined to halt the operation of a state law mandating that public schools separate their bathrooms and housing accommodations by biological sex.
- The commonsense decision comes as more and more federal courts across the country conclude that state laws preventing the expansion of “gender identity” rights are constitutional.
- The growing line of precedent cabining transgender arguments is good news for those who understand the category of biological sex to be more important than a subjective state of mind—which is the entire premise of gender identity.
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Texas Families Deserve School Choice
- Texas lawmakers should focus on policies that expand K-12 options for all Texas families.
- Just look two states away. Arizona has the most robust K-12 choice in rural areas of any state by a country mile, and its rural schools show strong positive trends in academic achievement.
- School choice policies benefit teachers, too. In Arizona, teachers can start their own schools, and families effectively decide which of those new schools thrive, replicate, or close.
- Texas should demonstrate the same confidence in rural teachers and communities to create a vibrant set of schools.
- Texas school districts won’t go away, but Texas teachers and students would benefit.
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