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Here is the Heritage Take on the top issues today. Please reply to this email to arrange an interview. HR 4 Would "Make It Easier" to Commit Election Fraud – HR 4 is the left’s latest iteration of an election takeover designed to remove fundamental election safeguards and open opportunities for cheaters to manipulate election results in their favor. The bill would essentially require every state to get the approval of partisan attorneys in the Biden administration before implementing any changes to their voting laws or practices. We must not be fooled by legislation cloaked with euphemistic names. HR 4 does not honor the legacy of the late congressman and civil right leader John Lewis, nor the countless others who sacrificed so much to have their votes count. Instead, HR 4 would make it easier for those intent on committing fraud to cancel out the votes of law-abiding Americans by preventing states from implementing commonsense voter integrity laws and practices. Heritage experts: Hans von Spakovsky and Zack Smith Some Census Data Cannot Be Correct – The Constitution requires an “actual Enumeration” of the “whole number of persons in each State” every 10 years. Some have raised concern that new technologies could allow census data to be manipulated so that individual responses wouldn’t remain confidential. To combat this, the Census Bureau has implemented “differential privacy” when reporting the publicly available census data. This supposedly provides an actual enumeration at the state level, but injects “noise” at levels below that to obscure the data. This has led to absurd results such as some census blocks having a negative number of people living in them. This misreporting is troubling because the data in census blocks are what mapmakers use when drawing new congressional and state legislative districts. Because of the opacity and false numbers involved in this process, it’s hard for others to see how exactly the Census Bureau has manipulated the data. Heritage experts: Hans von Spakovsky and Zack Smith 4 Keys to Understanding COVID-19 Surge at Border – More than 18% of families and 20% of unaccompanied minors who illegally crossed the border tested positive for the coronavirus, according to the NBC News report on the Department of Homeland Security document. That DHS document was included in a briefing for President Joe Biden, NBC reported. The DHS document also showed that more than a quarter of illegal immigrants who were being deported tested positive, requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to remove them from planes. The COVID-19 among illegal immigrants is because of “the highly transmissible delta variant combined with lengthier stays in crowded [U.S. Customs and Border Protection] facilities,” the document says. Employees at a shelter run by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Fort Bliss, Texas, filed whistleblower complaints alleging that supervisors told them to downplay the number of migrant children who tested positive for the virus. This is a result of the Biden administration’s lax border policies, said Lora Ries, senior research fellow for homeland security at The Heritage Foundation, the parent organization of The Daily Signal. Heritage expert: Fred Lucas 12 Defensive Gun Uses Underscore Fallacy of Mexico’s Lawsuit – The Mexican government clearly has missed the larger underlying point. Despite that country’s incredibly restrictive gun laws—indeed, arguably because of these laws—its peaceable citizens are defenseless against well-armed gangs that care nothing about law and order. Rather than shifting blame to lawful U.S. businesses that already comply with a myriad of federal laws and regulations, Mexico should consider learning from the U.S. and allow far more of its own peaceable citizens to protect themselves lawfully with firearms. Until then, Mexico’s largely unarmed citizens will continue to be left at the mercy of well-armed drug cartels that fear neither the government nor the people. Heritage expert: Amy Swearer
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