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Pardoned

What to Know: TPPF’s Alice Marie Johnson has received a presidential pardon from President Trump.

The TPPF Take: Alice had her sentence of life plus 25 years for a single non-violent drug conviction commuted in 2018. She has since become a Senior Fellow for TPPF’s Right on Crime project.

“Alice's story shows the power of second chances,” says TPPF’s Kevin Roberts. “But even more, her message of hope and redemption reminds us that even in these divisive times, the voices of peace and mercy and justice can still be heard."
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Race and History

What to Know: Writing in the Denton Record-Chronicle, a Texas professor contends that the New York Times’ 1619 Project “presents distorted picture of our founding.”

The TPPF Take: TPPF’s Tom Lindsay says that two Uber drivers showed him the deep gulf between the 1619 Project’s view of the nation and the more historically accurate “1776” view.

“My Uber drivers were both black,” notes Tom. “The driver who believed America to be founded on slavery revealed he knew little of the true history of this country. The newly arrived immigrant driver who believed America to be the best place to live in the world had both a solid knowledge of American history and real-world experience gained from living in other countries.”

Asylum

What to Know: The presidential race is putting the spotlight on America’s broken immigration system.

The TPPF Take: We need lasting reforms now.

“The essential problem with the U.S. asylum system is that it was built to respond to the challenges of the Cold War in the 20th century, not the immigration challenges of the 21st,” says TPPF’s Ken Oliver. “Our recent study identified the system’s core flaws, along with three key things that need to be done to fix it: streamlining the credible fear process, abolishing the 1997 Flores Settlement Agreement and amending the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 to eliminate the distinction between unaccompanied minors (UACs) from contiguous and noncontiguous countries.”