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4 More Reasons to Be Mad About Biden’s Student Loan Debt Amnesty <[link removed]> – The bottom line is that the Biden administration has put into motion a plan that will
further inflate college costs, hinder economic growth, reward upper-income earners <[link removed]>, and provide a major handout to woke institutions <[link removed]> of higher education. America’s children will be picking up the tab for this fiscal negligence for a generation. Heritage Expert: Lindsey Burke <[link removed]> 


5 Reasons Biden’s Student Loan Scheme Is Terrible, Corrupt Idea <[link removed]> – There’s a long list of reasons <[link removed]> why the the Biden administration’s scheme to write off upward of $20,000 per person in student loan debt,
announced Aug. 24, is a terrible and corrupt idea: It’s flagrantly illegal and usurps powers <[link removed]> reserved for Congress, which even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi <[link removed]> acknowledged a year ago. It’s unfair <[link removed]>, especially to people who paid back their loans or carefully avoided such debts <[link removed]>. It’s bad for the economy <[link removed]> and the nation’s finances <[link removed]>, especially at a time of high inflation and a labor shortage. It’s a blatant, desperate ploy to boost turnout <[link removed]> prior to the November midterm elections. It’s a corrupt financial windfall <[link removed]> for those who work around the levers of power in Washington, D.C., since top political staffers tend to have high-priced credentials. Heritage Expert: David Ditch <[link removed]> 


How New Orleans School Vaccine Mandate Is Affecting Students <[link removed]> –
The District of Columbia has delayed <[link removed]> implementation of its controversial COVID-19 vaccine mandate in schools. But New Orleans, which The Washington Post calls one of the few other <[link removed]> U.S. municipalities mandating such COVID-19 vaccinations for children, appears to be moving ahead—with a slight bureaucratic caveat.  New Orleans requires all students <[link removed]> older than 5 attending public school to be vaccinated against COVID-19 unless a parent signs an
exemption form. Parents may claim an exemption to the mandate on philosophical, religious, or medical grounds and submit the form to their child’s school to avoid having to vaccinate <[link removed]> their child. Heritage Expert: Douglas Blair <[link removed]> 


Do more to prevent Chinese espionage <[link removed]> - China is not a friendly competitor. It is very much a strategic threat, one that is actively working to undermine the United States and Western values of freedom and liberty. Yet too many universities and policymakers fail to recognize the danger. Many universities have been blinded by dollar signs. They pay agents to recruit <[link removed]> international students, primarily because they will pay full tuition. China is more than happy to pay the price. Prior to the pandemic, 35% of all foreign students in the U.S. were Chinese nationals. That number has since dropped by more than half <[link removed]>, but Chinese students still fill a disproportionately large share of seats, especially in post-graduate STEM classrooms. Heritage Expert: Dustin
Carmack <[link removed]> 


Congress should reject Biden administration’s asylum rule and ruin <[link removed]>
– The Biden administration has opened our southern border to an unlimited number of illegal immigrants from all parts of the globe -- and has no intention of changing course. Rather than act to secure our border, it has implemented a three-point border plan: 1. Quickly process illegal immigrants into the country, using NGOs that receive FEMA and HHS grants to transport them to the U.S. interior. 2. Grant these immigrants parole (albeit in violation of the parole law). 3. Use its new rule to expedite applications for asylum for hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens (most of whom are not eligible for asylum). The administration is actively ruining our asylum system by encouraging this fraud. Congress has the obligation to disapprove of the rule and bring meaning and integrity back to asylum. Heritage Expert: Lora Ries <[link removed]>

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