A weekly roundup of news, commentary, research, events, and more from The Heritage Foundation.
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Open Borders Cost Lives. Biden Doesn’t Care
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In the news: Authorities found 46 people dead in a tractor-trailer in San Antonio on June 27, a number that later rose to 53. The deceased were illegal immigrants who had recently crossed the U.S.-Mexico border.
Why it matters: Under the Biden administration’s policies, more illegal activity is occurring at the border and more migrants than ever are dying, says senior research associate Erin Dwinell. Read more about this ongoing tragedy here.
Biden’s Big Lie: Heritage visiting fellow Tom Homan, former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has witnessed death and devastation like this firsthand. He says “For months, the Biden administration has lied to the American people about creating a ‘moral and humane’ immigration system. How is any of this humane?” Read his commentary here.
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5 Monumental Supreme Court Cases This Term
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One for the history books: The Supreme Court just finished what will likely go down as one of its most momentous terms, handing conservatives multiple victories beyond the stunning decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Breaking it down: Heritage experts put together a summary of each of the five most important cases, which touch on issues ranging from Second Amendment rights to school choice and religious liberty. Find out what the five cases are here.
Also: Heritage Executive Vice President Derrick Morgan explains why the court’s ruling on one of these cases—West Virginia v. EPA—is so important to our freedoms. Read about it here.
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Pension Bailout Helps Biden’s Union Cronies, Not Workers
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What’s new: President Joe Biden announced Wednesday the details of a new taxpayer-funded, multi-billion-dollar bailout of chronically mismanaged and underfunded private-union pensions.
Our take: “Rewarding what should be criminal behavior on the part of unions and employers is not ‘protecting’ workers—it's robbing them to protect unions that empower liberal politicians,” writes Rachel Greszler, a Heritage senior research fellow. Read about the bailout here.
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ALWAYS ON OFFENSE
Why Is the Biden Admin. Snooping on Americans’ Social Media Posts? Heritage Lawsuit Aims to Find Out
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The latest: Heritage’s Oversight Project filed suit demanding that the Department of Homeland Security release information about how and why it is targeting Americans’ social media posts.
Our take: “DHS should have to explain what it is paying Babel Street—with American taxpayer dollars—to do with its massive data collection operation, and more importantly, what is it planning to do with that personal, private data,” said Mike Howell, director of the Oversight Project.
Why this matters: “The Department of Homeland Security has completely abused its authority to come up with outrageous intelligence assessments since Biden took office,” Howell said.
Go deeper: Read more about the suit and the Oversight Project here. Also, check out the Epoch Times coverage of the lawsuit here.
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Lindsey Burke Named to George Mason University’s Board
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New appointee: Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin named Lindsey Burke, director of Heritage’s Center for Education Policy and the Mark A. Kolokotrones fellow in education, to George Mason University’s board of visitors. She was one of several education appointments announced by Youngkin.
Innovator: “I have tasked these innovators to bring their expertise as parents, industry leaders, educators, and policymakers to ensure our classrooms and our campuses prepare students for success in life,” Youngkin said.
Learn more: You can read more about her appointment here.
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NEW RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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President Biden calls sky-high inflation “the Putin tax increase,” but Agenda readers are more willing to blame space aliens than Putin. The vast majority blame Biden’s overspending. Here are the results of our last reader poll.
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This week’s open question: What is the biggest threat facing the U.S. today?
Send your responses to [email protected], and we will report the results next week.
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Tackling Threats to Religious Freedom in China, Monday, July 11, 11 a.m. Speakers include:
- Nury Turkel, chair, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
- Annie Boyajian, vice president for policy and advocacy, Freedom House
- Bob Fu, founder and president, ChinaAid
Register here.
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The Future of Education: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune, Thursday, July 14, 11 a.m. Speakers include:
- Erika B. Donalds, president and CEO, The Optima Foundation
- William Mattox, director, J. Stanley Marshall Center for Educational Options, The James Madison Institute
- Ian Rowe, senior fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Register here.
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The Administrative State, U.S. Constitution, and the Supreme Court, Friday, July 22, 11 a.m. Speakers include:
- Thomas Merrill, professor of law, Columbia Law School
- Ronald Cass, president, Cass & Associates
- Paul Ray, director, Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation
Register here.
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“The Kevin Roberts Show”: Dr. Marty Makary, a Johns Hopkins professor and one of the great thought leaders in medicine, joins the show to discuss lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and how to rebuild trust in our scientific, health care, and public policy institutions. Listen to the episode here.
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“Heritage Explains”: Colombia’s election of its first Leftist president raises a lot of questions. Is it the beginning of a Marxist revolution throughout South America? Are we going to see more countries embrace the fate of Venezuela and Cuba? What is China’s role in this, and what do they have to gain? On this episode, we talk about all what’s at stake in South America, how this revolutionary orbit toward Marxism is a lot like the BLM Movement here in the U.S., and how the U.S. should respond. Listen to the episode here.
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Nile Gardiner, director of Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom and Bernard and Barbara Lomas Fellow, told Fox News that British Conservatives need to select a prime minister to replace Boris Johnson who will stand up to Russia, China, and Iran, and defend Brexit. Watch the clip here.
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