I Toured the Texas-Mexico Border. Here Are 8 Things I Learned

 
 
May 29, 2019
 

Good morning from Washington, where some lawmakers oppose a wall or other barricade at the southern border. Our Fred Lucas traveled to Laredo, Texas, to find out what the Border Patrol faces without one. On a related front, Amy Swearer examines the constitutional basis for considering everyone born here a U.S. citizen. Plus: Nick Loris on keeping gas prices within reason, Kevin Daley on a judge with something to say about religious tests, and Walter Williams on how leftists misrepresent the nation's founding.

 
 
 
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"Come after school, you've got kids practicing for Little League, parents bringing their kids to practice," says Special Operations Supervisor Narcizo Ramos."The smugglers will try to blend in with the people in the park."
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While Congress once sought to expand birthright citizenship to include freed slaves, it also sought to exclude broad categories of individuals who maintained only a qualified or limited allegiance to the nation.
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Here's my hypothesis about people who use slavery to trash the Founders: They have contempt for our constitutional guarantees of liberty, writes Walter Williams.
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Scalia was a towering Supreme Court justice who left an indelible mark on America. But he was also a man of deep faith, and that faith continues on with his children.
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Crude oil prices make up 57% of the price of retail gas. Federal and state taxes, refining and distributing, and marketing accounts for the rest.
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"The religious test clause in the Constitution makes it unconstitutional to impose a religious test on anyone who holds public office," the appeals judge says.
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CeCe Telfer had competed on Franklin Pierce University's men's track team as recently as January 2018.
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"Abortion has proved to be a disturbingly effective tool for implementing the discriminatory preferences that undergird eugenics," writes Thomas.
 
     
 
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