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Keep Racist Critical Race Theory Ideology Out of K-12 Classrooms <[link removed]> – Anyone living in a nation alongside people from different ethnic backgrounds should take seriously the issues of race and
equality under the law, but Americans also need to recognize the difference between separate racist acts and a legal system stacked against individuals from certain ethnicities. Racist acts are deplorable and should be condemned. Yet, declaring Americans to be systemically racist today is a sign of disrespect to those brave souls who marched in civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s, fought to defend our way of life overseas, or are protecting our streets and communities now. State lawmakers and local education officials must make sure new K-12 lessons do not discriminate by
race, sex, national origin, or any other immutable characteristic because such discrimination violates federal law. And after all who have sacrificed to help America live up to her promise, we should hope that teaching students to treat people differently based on skin color would be “far-fetched” again someday. Heritage
experts: Jonathan Butcher <[link removed]> and Mike Gonzalez <[link removed]>

New Census Numbers Change House <[link removed]> – It is a normal part of the apportionment process that certain states gain, while other states lose, congressional seats in the U.S. House of Representatives as the very mobile population of the country moves. What is distorting this process is the fact that noncitizens, both legal and illegal, are being included in the population used to apportion congressional seats, as ordered by Joe Biden. This means that sanctuary states, all of which are Democratic blue stats, do everything they can to attract illegal aliens
have more seats than they should. While it is predicted that New York and California will each be losing a House seat, they actually should lose more because of their policies of obstructing federal immigration enforcement and the fact that they have more seats than they deserve due to their large populations of illegal aliens. Heritage expert: Hans von Spakovsky <[link removed]>

Cornyn-Sinema Proposal Rewards Biden's Open-Borders Agenda <[link removed]> – Increasing the number of processing sites may sound compassionate, but will actually just give the Biden administration more ability to process and release illegal
aliens into the country more quickly. This will do nothing but cause the already historic numbers at our border to rise even higher and further overwhelm law enforcement and our immigration system. Illegal aliens know that under the Biden administration, if they make it to the border, they are likely going to be released into the interior. The numbers show that once this happens, more than 90% of them are here to stay. Expediting the process of releasing them into the country may be a good PR move for the administration, but will open the floodgates for more illegal immigration. Heritage experts: Lora Ries <[link removed]> and Mike
Howell <[link removed]>
More Policymakers Breaking Their Own Rules: Gov. Whitmer Travels to FL; Schools Board Cancels Prom <[link removed]> – Rules for thee but not for me? The interactive map below shows the continuing hypocrisy of local, state, and federal officials who violate their own coronavirus mandates, policies, or other
restrictions, with 66 reported instances to date, and counting. Some officials have violated their own rules more than once. See the full list at bottom.  Heritage experts: Joel Griffith <[link removed]> and John Cooper <[link removed]>
Medicaid policy: An unhealthy approach <[link removed]> – What’s really needed is not a federal, one-size-fits-all model, but a more flexible Medicaid model that allows states to adapt their Medicaid programs to the diverse and changing needs of
their citizens. This will also require addressing more fundamental challenges facing the program, including preserving eligibility for those in need, allowing benefits to match the needs of beneficiaries more precisely, and restructuring the financing to target resources and dollars more effectively. Heritage expert: Nina
Schaefer <[link removed]>

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