Plus: Illegal Immigrants on Run ‘Harass’ Texas Border Farmers
April 27 2022
Good morning from Washington, where the left calls police officers racist. Interesting how “defunding” police fueled homicides among blacks, our Jarrett Stepman writes. At the Texas-Mexico border, Fred Lucas meets farmers facing a huge crop of illegal aliens. On the podcast, a former Marine tells Virginia Allen why it’s so important for veterans to own former service dogs. Plus: Tennessee oversteps on who may run for Congress; how Ukraine sunk that Russian warship; and how one union hopes to dumb down schools even more. On this date in 1994, over 22 million South Africans cast ballots in the nation’s first multiracial parliamentary elections, with an overwhelming majority picking anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela to head a coalition government.
“We found four dead people on our farm in 2008, and we found people that were [fatally] beaten up, terribly,” says Joe Waite, who owns a grapefruit farm with his wife.
Tennessee lawmakers appear to have passed this patently unconstitutional law in order to end the candidacy of former Trump official Morgan Ortagus in a House GOP primary.
Although the sinking of the Moskva testifies to the ingenuity of Ukraine’s military, it also is a reminder of the cost of failing to make the investments needed to be a competent naval force.
Beyond reining in spending, policymakers need to remove harmful government interventions that contribute to higher food prices. Energy is a great place to start.
