Conservative Groups, Ex-Border Officials Demand Lawmakers Reject ‘Unacceptable’ Border Compromise

• Negotiations are ongoing between Republicans, Democrats and the Biden administration over a $106 billion supplemental spending agreement for the border, Israel and Ukraine.
• A number of conservative groups, including The Heritage Foundation, and former border officials are urging Republican lawmakers to reject a potential compromise on border funding that falls short of the House signature legislation passed this year -- as the clock ticks down on a potential deal.
• Republicans in the House and conservative groups have called for the inclusion of the entirety of H.R. 2 -- the House signature legislation passed in the chamber this year which ramps up border security, restarts border wall construction, brings back the Remain-in-Mexico policy and limits the use of asylum and humanitarian parole among other sweeping changes.
• Biden’s border chaos is a national security nightmare, putting all Americans at risk. The Secure the Border Act (H.R. 2) is the only real solution, not a watered-down messaging bill that’s crafted behind closed doors.
• Congress cannot compromise on the safety and security of the American people. 

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America’s Rent-A-Womb Industry Lures an Alarming Number Of Chinese Nationals

• The American “rent-a-womb” industry is the byproduct of reproductive technology that augments the success of surrogacy, permissive legal structures passed in 2013 that grant easy access to parenthood via surrogacy in California, and, of course, the lure of automatic citizenship.
• In July, researchers using data from the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology Clinic Outcome Reporting System found that Chinese nationals make up the largest percentage of foreign surrogacy contracts in the United States.
• 75 percent of foreign intended parents used facilities in California. These findings confirm what anecdotal data already pointed to: Chinese nationals are taking advantage of an unregulated market in the United States, centered in the Golden State, that deals with the creation and selection of human life itself.
• No foreign national has the right to a child created and born in the United States. It’s time for Congress to put an end to this odious practice.
• Congress should enforce laws that respect American citizenship and work to protect the safety and well-being of children over the preferences of adults in foreign countries.

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It's Not Just the Ivies: Public Universities Must Answer for Their Moral Rot Too

• So far, almost all the critical focus on how university leaders have manifestly failed to address rampant antisemitism on their campuses has been aimed at selective, private universities.
• It was the presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for example, who testified to Congress last week on the issue and now face the brunt of the backlash.
• But many state universities are just as culpable. The ideology undergirding the obsession with diversity, equity, and inclusion is also fueling Jew hatred at their institutions.
• Unlike schools in the Ivy League or colleges such as MIT, which are private, state schools are public institutions predominantly supported by tax dollars, which makes them entirely accountable to voters and, thus, to governors, state legislatures, and boards of trustees.
• The next round of congressional hearings on higher ed’s Jew-hatred problem should bring the bad-acting leaders of public universities, such as George Mason University, to answer questions.

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