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4 More Reasons to Be Mad About Biden’s Student Loan Debt Amnesty – 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, and provide a major handout to woke institutions of higher education. America’s children will be picking up the tab for this fiscal negligence for a generation. Heritage Expert: Lindsey Burke
5 Reasons Biden’s Student Loan Scheme Is Terrible, Corrupt Idea – There’s a long list of reasons 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 reserved for Congress, which even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi acknowledged a year ago. It’s unfair, especially to people who paid back their loans or carefully avoided such debts. It’s bad for the economy and the nation’s finances, especially at a time of high inflation and a labor shortage. It’s a blatant, desperate ploy to boost turnout prior to the November midterm elections. It’s a corrupt financial windfall 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
How New Orleans School Vaccine Mandate Is Affecting Students – The District of Columbia has delayed implementation of its controversial COVID-19 vaccine mandate in schools. But New Orleans, which The Washington Post calls one of the few other 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 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 their child. Heritage Expert: Douglas Blair
Do more to prevent Chinese espionage - 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 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, but Chinese students still fill a disproportionately large share of seats, especially in post-graduate STEM classrooms. Heritage Expert: Dustin Carmack
Congress should reject Biden administration’s asylum rule and ruin – 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