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Data Shows Immigrants Crucial to Texas Healthcare, Construction, and Energy Industries - Business, civic, and faith leaders gathered recently at Amegy Bank in Houston to discuss the crucial role that immigrants play to decrease workforce shortages and increase economic growth in Texas and to emphasize the need for federal, state, and local legislation that will increase the integration of immigrants into the workforce. Data in new reports released by the American Immigration Council highlighted how significantly immigrants empower Texas and Houston’s workforce in the healthcare, construction, and energy industries, key sectors of the economy that directly impact all Texans.
Crenshaw, Spanberger Lead Bipartisan Effort to Tackle Gun & Cash Smuggling by Cartels at the Southern Border - U.S. Representatives Dan Crenshaw and Abigail Spanberger — both members of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee — have introduced bipartisan legislation to strengthen inspections of outbound traffic from the U.S. to Mexico. The bill provides U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with additional personnel and resources to target the flow of firearms, illegal money, and other contraband that fuel cartel operations such as fentanyl trafficking.
Rep. Troy E. Nehls Introduces the Stop CARB Act - The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has used its waiver exemption from the Clean Air Act (CAA) to eliminate the sale, and eventually the use, of all gas-powered vehicles in the state of California. Most recently, CARB has targeted locomotive diesel engines by imposing an in-use locomotive rule that requires switching, industrial, and passenger locomotives to be zero-emissions by 2030 and freight line-haul locomotives to be emissions-free by 2035. “California will not govern the great state of Texas,” said Congressman Nehls. “The liberal state of California should not set egregious standards for the rest of the country. The Stop CARB Act will repeal the Harris-Biden’s EPA’s radical, out-of-touch use of CARB waivers, allowing other states to set their own standards and protecting consumer choice and our nation’s supply chains.”
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