ICE Shooting In Houston

A breaking news story out of Houston turns into a national argument in real time and we slow it down long enough to ask the only question that matters: what actually happened. We walk through ICE’s account of a targeted enforcement operation in Magnolia Park that ended with a fatal shooting, the immediate demands from activists and local officials for a locally led investigation, and the media framing that often avoids plain language about immigration status. I also lay out why it’s possible to want body cam footage, timelines, and transparency while refusing to presume guilt based on politics.

Then we zoom out to the incentive problem. Brandon Waltens from Texas Scorecard joins me to explain Governor Greg Abbott’s directive for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to investigate Mission Regional Medical Center over alleged “birth packages” marketed across the border, including the now-removed “HaveMyBabyInTexas.com” branding. We connect birth tourism, visa fraud and taxpayer exposure to the broader fight over birthright citizenship and the Fourteenth Amendment, plus what Texas lawmakers might do next.

We close with two Texas culture and policy updates: my take on James Talarico’s campaign outreach and the transactional logic of identity politics, and the Supreme Court’s decision to let Texas’ App Store Accountability Act take effect while courts continue to litigate it. That law requires parental consent before minors can download apps, putting child online safety, privacy, and digital accountability back on the table.

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Birthright Citizenship And Abbott Probe

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative here on Patriot Talk 920. And by the way, very excited to let you guys know, we will be having Brandon Waltons coming on the show today from Texas Scorecard. And that's not, you're like, oh yeah, that's well, it's Wednesday. Of course you're gonna have Texas scorecard on. Yes, true. But the specifics of what we're going over today are actually very exciting. Because of course you might remember that the Supreme Court has done something that, whether it was lining up with constitutional values or not, has been absolutely devastating for the future of our country, and that is the birthright citizenship decision. Well, Abbott is now ordering an investigation into these this South Texas hospital over claims that they're promoting and allowing and supporting birth tourism, which of course is the concept of coming over to the U.S. just to pop out a baby so that you can, you know, have a citizen child and then they get you residency, all that sort of stuff. It's a it's a massive mess. And the Supreme Court decision, of course, incentivized that and it said that's totally legal and all these sorts of things. So we'll see how this investigation plays out. I don't know what he's gonna try to do if it turns out they are doing it, because the Supreme Court has now said they have a right to do it. But we'll we'll we'll see. We'll see how it goes. And uh we're gonna have Brandon Walton stuck all about all of the details because that is coming out from Texas scorecards. So we'll go over all of that in the next segment.

ICE Shooting In Houston Breakdown

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In the meantime, before we get there, we have a lot of news, and the biggest one you guys might have seen already. But of course, it's big news. Uh, this came out yesterday. I think the last update we got was around 8 15 p.m. yesterday. So this this is this is freshly breaking news coming out from right here in the city of Houston, uh, where ICE says that one of their agents shot and killed a driver. A U.S. immigration and customs enforcement agent shot and killed a Mexican citizen in Houston's Magnolia Park neighborhood yesterday after he allegedly drove into an ICE vehicle, according to an agency spokesman. Now, that spokesman for ICE alleged that the man who was killed, identified as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, tried to evade arrest during a targeted enforcement operation at around 6 50 AM. The driver refused multiple commands and tried to run over an ICE officer, prompting an officer to fire his weapon in self-defense. Now, before we get into the rest of this story, I do want to highlight this is a Mexican citizen. Not a dual citizen, by the way, meaning he's not an American citizen. They worded it, it's it's so funny. You can almost tell when when you know when liberals are taking part in media. You can you can just you can just just their words are laced with the incessant need to not say the bad words. They won't say illegal alien. They won't say even they won't even say undocumented half the time anymore. Even that's you know getting a little shady for them. That used to be the thing they could say. So now they're saying a Mexican citizen in the U.S. Yeah, that that's called an illegal. And they're the the headlines. I mean, if you read through the headlines, ICE says agent shot and killed Houston driver. No, that was a guy driving in Houston, but he was not a Houston driver. I th the the the way they word this is so funny. And then of course you've got you've got uh you know, there's this another article that says protesters demand Houston leaders take action after ICE agent fatally shoots man, Houston man. Right? Like it's just absolute insanity to even even go that range. But of course they have to because it aligns better with their worldview, which we'll catch here in a bit. So emergency services were immediately contacted, and around Joe later died at the hospital, according to federal officials. The spokesman said this is a developing situation, and we will update the public when more information is available. Now, one individual was transported to Bentov Hospital and and after firefighters were dispatched at like 7 a.m., according to the Eastern Fire Department. We're not entirely sure if that's connected to the same crime, because again, you're having the federal and the local do their different things. But the FBI said it was investigating the alleged assault of an ICE officer while the federal agency is looking into the agent-involved shooting. The FBI said its evidence response to the team to the scene. Uh, according to Connor Hagen, and he is a spokesman for FBI Houston, he and the Houston Police Department referred questions about the case to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which of course oversees ICE. Uh, Houston Police Department spokesman said this is not an HPD scene. Travis Model, a spokesman for Precinct 6 Constable Sylvia Trevino, whose district includes the area where the shooting happened, also referred comment to federal officials, saying, hey, we don't have any involvement in the investigation. This isn't our job. This is not related to us. A Harris Health spokesman said he could not provide any information because Ben Dobb does not have anyone with the same name as a Raujo listed as a patient at the hospital. The spokesman noted that there are several reasons a patient may not be listed in the hospital census, such as being unidentified when they arrived at the hospital or being in the custody of law enforcement, they may not be listed on the typical records. Now, Ronaldo Salgado, a Raujo's son, said yesterday night on social media that his father was a hardworking Mexican man who was in the middle of obtaining his work permit legally. Can I just let those words sit there? Because of course, this is what the the leftists and the liberals and the protest groups are all gonna latch on to. Listen to this guy's son. He was a hard-working Mexican man who was trying to do things the right way. Except, of course, he was trying to do things the right way while he was actively breaking the law and then tried to run over a federal agent. That probably isn't the way to go about things if you're trying to do things the right way. Nevertheless, Salgado said that his father had been in the country for nearly 35 years and worked in construction to provide first family. So let me get this straight. He's been here for 35 years and still has not obtained the legal thing that you say he's trying to get. No, no work permit, no visa, nothing. Nothing. 35 years, nothing. But he was trying really hard, guys. He was trying really hard. Salgado said he was on his way to work, picking up his workers. My father did not deserve this. Unless, of course, he did try to run over an ICE agent, in which case self-defense would would say that maybe he did. Again, these are all still allegations. We don't know. Of course, the punishment for just being an illegal alien is not death. I don't, I don't know, hardly, I don't think I know anybody who actually believes that, that the punishment inherently for being just here illegally is death. Right? I've not heard that argument made. I certainly don't believe that. It's the the main punishment is proportional, right? You'd say, okay, deportation and being put on a list that you can never even visit the country on even a tourist visa. You can't come back. But if you if you are here illegally and then you try to kill somebody, well, that's no longer the crime is no longer just being here illegally. It's also attempted murder, right? So self-defense would would come into play. Gracie Mindiola, a 58-year-old who ha who lives near where the shooting happened, says she woke up around 7 18 AM after a friend called her and saw police officers all over the street. She said that it was not uncommon to see ICE officers in the neighborhood. Her daughter-in-law and one-year-old granddaughter had been stopped before by a federal agent who asked them to prove their U.S. citizenship. The shooting, however, was the most violent encounter she heard of, which is interesting. Because of course they're going to continue to spin this as residents being afraid of ICE, saying that they're a danger to the community, that people are scared, that they're hurting people. But interestingly enough, the most violent encounter was one in which, at least allegedly, a federal agent had to defend himself. If that's the most violent encounter, then all these claims of fearfulness and and what have you kind of all shatter, really. Uh nevertheless, Mendiola said, I'm this is too close to home. Maybe the man was going to work. I've never seen anything like this. Another neighborhood resident, Janie Torres, said everyone in the area was scared of ice, even the citizens. She said, I'm a Chicana. I'm still thinking about getting stopped. Of course I do. Yeah, and then you just say I'm a citizen and you're good. What do you I'm so afraid they're just gonna what? What are you what are you afraid of if you're a citizen? What what even the citizens are scared? Of what? I I'm dead serious. What are you con even if you get stopped, which the odds are not very high, if you do, what what are you what are you so scared of? You think they're just out there shooting people? They're not, by the way. Right? And and it's interesting because we're gonna talk a little bit about it. Uh the the League of United Latin American Citizens, a civil rights organization, demanded that the HPD lead the investigation into around Joe's death, saying it would be a dereliction of duty if the department declines to get involved. Lulac leader said that federal law enforcement could not be trusted to conduct an impartial investigation and asked that local authorities take charge of the inquiry into the shooting. Lulac CEO Juan Proano said we want an independent investigation, not a federal investigation by the FBI and Cash Patel. This should be conducted by the Houston Police Department that is grounded in the community with accountability at a local level. Officials quickly drew comparisons to Naraujo's death and the killing of Renee Good, of course. Um the the killing, again, the phraseology should should tell you. In both of those cases, by the way, I quickly put out a statement alleging that the person who agents shot had tried to use their car as a weapon. Except in that case, we got video pretty quickly, and it was pretty evident to most people, at least 95% plus of the people who have brain cells, uh, that that's exactly what happened. Accident or not, it was very clear that she was running into this officer. And so, again, self-defense, you're using your car as a deadly weapon, self-defense comes into play. Um, and so, but again, they're highlighting nationwide the number of deaths is staggeringly low. Dealing with all of these violent criminals, dealing uh with with people who are, you know, already automatically breaking the law, who are already in a tense situation. The violence against ICE has been skyrocketing, and yet, and yet, they're admitting the number of deaths is is I I think we're up to five total. And and multiple of them, multiple of them are dire if not all of them, are directly related to self-defense. Right? Proanio said that the federal government handed us a story about Renee Good and it fell apart moments after the video released. This is why I said it was 95% plus of those who had brain cells. Uh, Juan Proagno doesn't, so kind of doesn't work for him. Today in Houston, we're being handed the same story about Lorenzo, Salgato, Araujo in almost the exact same words. Proanio also noted that both shootings happened in the morning during targeted enforcement operations in residential neighborhoods rather than encounters with violent criminals. Salgado, Araujo's son, uh said that his father was in the East End looking for workers where ICE agents encountered him. Peranno said, We're not asking you to take our word for what happened today. What we're asking is that no one take Department of Homeland Security's word either until there is an independent investigation. Cesar Espinoza, President of Advocacy Group Feel Houston, F-I-E-L, also called for an independent investigation. Quote, ICE does not get to be judge, jury, and executioner on our straits. Regardless of the circumstance, ICE has a sworn duty to not act recklessly and to carry themselves out in a professional manner. But again, you're right, they don't have the authority to be judge, jury, or executioner. But based on the allegations, every single human being in this country would have the same right that ICE agent had. If someone was trying to kill me, I would have the right to defend myself. That is a God-given, constitutionally enshrined right, actually. And it has nothing to do with being judge, jury, or executioner. It has nothing even really to do with being a law enforcement agent. It has everything to do with being a human being with Second Amendment rights. So when somebody tries to hit you with their car, you're allowed to try to stop them from killing you. I know, I know you don't know how America works. I'm I'm aware, but that's that's how it works over here. If you don't like it, again, all of you are welcome to go somewhere else. We would much prefer it that way. City Councilmember Alejandro Salinas called for an investigation into the shooting and said her office is looking into whether any city resources or personnel were involved in it. Uh her statement said the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado or Raujo by an ICE agent during an operation in Houston's East End this morning is deeply concerning. The use of deadly force demands full scrutiny and transparency. Meanwhile, Councilmember Joe Panzarella, of course, who represents neighborhoods like Montrose, Oak Forest, and the Heights, said that ICE was a danger to both Houston's immigrant community and the community at large, and the agency was untrained and unqualified to patrol the city streets. Though again, interestingly, if you had all of these agents who were untrained and unqualified dealing with uh regular criminals, violent criminals, self-defense cases, all these sorts of things, you would expect there would be more violence, right? You would expect that there would be more, more, more issues that were concerning. You would expect if you had a nation full of completely untrained and unqualified officers who don't know how to deal with these situations, that you'd have more problems. At least that would be my expectation, that you wouldn't have, you know, a c a a few different cases. You'd have dozens, if not hundreds of cases where they made mistakes. And that's not that's not what we're seeing. Uh meanwhile, you also have Joaquin Martinez, council member, who represents the Magnolia Park area, who said he first got texted yesterday in regard to the incident, and he spent the day in talks with the mayor's office and waiting on information from federal authorities and members of Houston's congressional delegation who he said should have increased access to the case. And so and and this is what's interesting, and they're gonna hate him for saying this, but he said, How do you prevent this? For me, it's building trust with our local law enforcement, but then also complying. You know how many people wouldn't be shot by law enforcement if they just complied, if you just followed the rules, if you didn't try to hit somebody with your car, if you didn't become violent and aggressive. It's why, of course, after after the whole BLM George Floyd debacle and everything that's going on, even before that, you know, you had all of these demands, especially from organizations like BLM, uh, the defund the police movement, who demanded that body cam footage always be running and always be released. And it's so, it's so ironic because the moment that happened, it actually destroyed any narrative they had left. It was it was actually really bad for their movement. Because every single body cam footage that was ever released essentially said the exact same thing. Hey, these are actually justified uses of force, and now we can prove it. It's actually not beneficial for them at all. Because it showed, hey, actually, turns out that we were right that these were justified cases of self-defense. Uh, nevertheless, neither Mayor John Whitmeyer nor a spokesman for his office have returned any requests for comment. Uh Representative Sylvia Garcia, whose district includes parts of Houston, said on social media that the community and the victim's family deserve a complete and transparent accounting of what happened. Uh Letitia Plummer, a former Eastern City Council member and of course Democratic nominee for House County judge, echoed other officials' demands for accountability and transparency. She said in a statement yesterday evening that her heart is with the family grieving the loss of their loved one, and that she stood alongside area residents and organizations in their call for a prompt, impartial investigation into the killing. She said, I joined Lulac and community leaders in calling for a locally led investigation that gives answers to the people of Harris County, not Washington. I'm working. The working families of Magnolia Park deserve peace and quiet, not a battlefield. You're right. You know how you get peace and quiet by deporting all the people who are breaking the law in your neighborhood. That that will get us peace and quiet, actually. Plummer has been, of course, as we all know, a consistent critic. And so this the way this case actually happened doesn't matter at all to her. She's been a critic of ICE and of Trump the whole time. And so it's again the same with all these people. It has nothing to do with the actual facts of the case. It doesn't really matter to them. Same as Renee Good. It didn't matter what actually happened. It didn't matter what video actually captured. None of that was relevant. What mattered is someone died and ICE shot. Therefore, ICE is turning our neighborhoods into a battlefield. And so you also had Abby Kamen, Harris County attorney, who said the shooting needs to be looked into and her office will support any local investigation into how the tragedy unfolded. Jacqueline Lucci Smith, the Republican nominee for Harris County attorney, said in a post to social media that the killing was a reminder that immigration enforcement is not a political game. Smith went on to criticize her opponent, Abby Kamen, who was recently appointed to the position. A former Houston City Council member Kayman was among those who pushed also for an ordinance that would have limited the city's cooperation with federal law enforcement. And Smith said, yet radical politicians like Abby Kamen have pushed policies designed to weaken coordination with ICE, restrict law enforcement, and turn lawful immigration enforcement into a partisan battlefield. This is what's happening. And I want everyone to understand that these sorts of killings any it is tragic. And I've said this before. Even in cases where that happens, it's still a tragedy. The loss of human life is undeniably a tragedy. And we should never be so incompassionate because of what's going on around us that we deny that. That we say, no, it doesn't matter that human life was lost. Of course that matters. They're made in the image of God, regardless of what they've done. And so it's sad. That's why you'll find that any almost anyone other than legitimate psychopaths that have serious mental disorders, when there is even a self-defense case where it is, it is very clearly justified self-defense, very clearly, those people end up very messed up. They struggle uh with PTSD and anxiety for years if they ever get over it. You know why that is? Because taking life isn't good. Death isn't is is a result of sin. Of course it's not good. Of course it doesn't feel right. Of course, in in our state, as sinful human beings, you know, we you and we can still understand that death is not the final say. Right? We we uh we we comprehend that. And so I'm not gonna sit here and say, no, it doesn't matter, he deserved it, and just kind of go ham-fisted and say it doesn't matter. It does. And I'm not I'm not gonna sit around and pretend like that's not the case and that death is unimportant and that it's not a tragedy. It is. What happened is very tragic, right? Any loss of life is tragic. Uh, but the way that the story is being framed as opposed to what what actually probably happened is the disgusting narrative of taking compassion to such ends that you're willing to be dishonest and deceitful. And and I'm not even saying that the people who are saying, hey, we would like a local investigation as well, are problematic. I actually don't have an inherent issue with that. I actually don't have a problem uh with having a sort of local investigation of what's going on. But I have way more commentary on this because this is, again, the the biggest story of the day that I I want to get into, and we simply don't have time to do it in this segment. So we're gonna go ahead and head to the break. And if you have any questions about the story before I get into the commentary, or alongside the commentary that I'm gonna give you guys in the next segment, if you have any questions about the story, anything you'd like to say about it, let us know your thoughts on what happened, um, just the general view you have of ICE. Maybe let us know if you're scared as a citizen. Or are you are you scared of ICE stopping you? Uh let us know at 713. You can text in at 713-779-5978. One more time. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and Lord willing, I'll be right back to talk more about this story, what I think about it after the break. So stick around. We'll talk soon.

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Self-Defense Claims And Media Framing

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. Now it's interesting because, of course, again, as we acknowledge on this show, as Christians as Christians we acknowledge that, of course, any loss of life is tragic. And I don't I don't want that to be lost in the fervor of what we're discussing. And I know that there are some people on the right out there who've kind of pursued this sort of Christless, right, un-Christian version of conservatism that will inevitably fail because the reason that conservatism is so great is because it is rooted in Christian tradition. What are we trying to conserve? What is it that we're conserving as conservatives? We're conserving traditional values of Christianity in this country. And so when you reject the Christianity, you get some pretty crazy stuff happening, uh, which is why you probably will inevitably see some who say they genuinely just don't care. Um and I'm not saying that it wasn't deserved. I'm not saying that it wasn't legitimate. I'm not saying that this wasn't uh, you know, the outcome that had to happen as a result of what went on in this particular case. What I am saying is that we can say all of that and still acknowledge that a loss of life is tragic. But before the story had really even barely broken, right? That this is breaking news. No one knows what's happened. We're hearing allegations, we're hearing claims. Before anything's happened, the professional activist class, the political class, had already decided who the villain was. And the villain was not the person who uh, you know, allegedly refused multiple commands or tried to flee a targeted enforcement operation or tried to run over an officer in the vehicle. No, the villain we're told, we're supposed to believe, is the ICE agent. And that's the sort of upside-down moral order that we currently, unfortunately, have the disgrace to live under. One where the political class and and the activist class are so anti-government inherently, that you have a story come out and you don't know. I mean, even assuming you're in the I don't trust the government at all, Lane, even assuming you're in that boat, to come out immediately and countersignal what ICE is saying with zero evidence to the contrary, with zero evidence saying uh that this is evil and it's turning us into a battleground and this is a battlefield and all these things with absolutely no evidence should tell you exactly where the motivation is, right? Because all we have are the bare minimum facts right now. ICE says there's a target enforcement operation in Magnolia Park uh yesterday morning. They say that this guy refused commands, tried to evade arrest, and attempted to run over an ICE officer. The officer fired in self-defense, and the FBI is now investigating the alleged assault on the ICE officer as well as the Department of Land Security handling the agent-involved shooting investigation. Houston police themselves have admitted this is not an HPD scene. Now, are we allowed to wait for the investigation? Of course. Of course. Are we allowed to ask for body cam and dash cam and reports and a full timeline and more details? Absolutely. In fact, we should ask for those things. Transparency is good. I believe that in every single case we need transparency. But what we're not gonna do is sit around and pretend that ICE agents are so automatically guilty because left-wing activist groups and Democrat politicians hate the enforcement of immigration law. That's that's what we're not gonna do. Right? Because this is not just this is not just a local shooting story. We understand this is a border story. This is a story of national sovereignty, right? It has everything to do with law and order in a country that has unfortunately spent years allowing millions of people to pour into the interior of our country. Um, and then and then, you know, the left wants to be all up in arms and shocked and and hurt when law enforcement has to then go into neighborhoods where these millions of people have poured into and take them back home. People don't like the visuals of that. They don't like being reminded that it's happening. They don't like seeing it. Sometimes that requires, you know, arrests and it requires handcuffs and it requires going to people's homes. They don't like that. Uh it is tense, right? It is it is ugly in certain cases. But you know what's uglier than that? A nation with no border that just lets this stuff happen. A nation where the law means absolutely nothing, uh where this crisis has become normalized, and then and then you protect these people who are not Americans, and then you blame law enforcement automatically when the crisis goes up in heat level. And so when Nice Agent is standing in front of a vehicle during an enforcement operation, he doesn't have the luxury of sitting around and waiting to see, hey, is the vehicle gonna stop? Is everything actually okay here? Right? A car is a weapon. Any truck can be a weapon. Any tool, I've said this before, any tool can be a wet a weapon. It isn't inherently a weapon. The tool isn't the problem. It's not the car that was at fault. I'm not gonna ban cars, right? But anything can be. If I'm running at you with a hammer, you're entitled to a level of self-defense, right? That that's justified use of force, guys. And so if you use a vehicle to ram, charge, or try to run over an officer, you've introduced deadly force into the encounter. There is now legitimate cause for self-defense. And that that shouldn't be controversial, assuming that fact is true. But to the open border left, to these activists, well, it doesn't really matter what happened because ICE is automatically guilty. If ICE does nothing, uh, they'll say that immigration law is being ignored and it's not good enough. If if ICE arrests someone, they say the arrest is somehow cruel. If ICE conducts a target operation, they'll say, well, the neighborhood is being terrorized and turned into a battlefield. And if an officer is attacked and has to use force to defend himself, well, ICE is acting as judge, jury, and executioner, right? That's these are all claims from the activists and from the politicians. There is absolutely no standard ICE couldn't meet for these people because to them, their real position is that ICE should not exist at all. ICE is inherently an immoral branch of law enforcement. And therefore, anything they do and however they do it is bad. And again, you can you can very clearly see emotional manipulation on display. Um we're told he's hardworking, he's been here for 35 years, he worked construction, on his way to work, and maybe all of that is true. But none of that answers the actual question: did he comply with lawful commands? Did he try to evade arrest? Did he attempt to run over an officer? Those are the questions that are actually relevant to whether or not the force was justified. Uh, because the law cannot be, you can't, you can't replace the legal standards we have in this country with a biography about the victim or a biography about the the attacker. You can't do I and they try to do this every time, right? You've you've seen it, right? You guys remember the Daniel Penny case up in New York and Jordan Neely, uh, where he you know had to choke out Jordan Neely because he was threatening people on the on the subway, and it the Jordan Neely ended up dying. And of course it was immediately, yeah. Remember when he used to dance in the subway systems? Remember when he used to dance and he was so happy, he was so joyful. And and and and you have to think to yourself, how is that relevant at all to the actual case on display? If you were just saying that at a funeral, that that would be one thing, but you're not. You're using it as a political argument. Well, he used to do fun good things. Well, he used to work construction, he was a hard worker. That's that's great. Hard workers are great. That's that is a a standard for a good man is to be a hard worker. You're also supposed to obey the law, you're also not supposed to try to run over people. That's those are also standards. And you don't get to make up for one lack of standard by doing a different one, right? And again, as I said before, uh, let's be frank here. If if if you've been in the country for 35 years and you're still in the middle of trying to obtain legal status, um, that is a very clear indictment of this system that allowed this sort of illegal position to be normalized in the first place, right? A system that allowed your illegal presence in this country to become politically protected as a class. And again, the activists want to make this about fear in their communities. I want to make it about fear among law-abiding Americans. I think there's fear on our side. What about the fear of citizens who have watched their border and their culture being completely thrown in the garbage? What about the fear of your kids being out there having to live alongside cartel traffic and fentanyl and human smuggling and illegal labor markets and violent criminals who never should have been here? What about the fear of the ICE agent who gets up every morning knowing that every routine stop could turn into assault in seconds, given the political temperature in the country, because it's been happening, right? The left has compassion for everyone except the people who asked to enforce the law and the actual law-abiding Americans. They care about everybody but you. And then, of course, you have Lulak and and others demanding that Houston police lead the investigation. But again, HPD has already said this, this isn't our case. They they acknowledge the way that we have a system that already functions the way that it functions. And again, if it were, I would have zero problems with the HPD conducting an investigation. I have no inherent issue with that. I think checks and balances are great if we want to have multiple departments leading investigations. I have no issue if the HPD is able to do that based on our current legal structure. But again, this is this is the problem. They're not demanding accountability, right? That's not what they're actually asking for. They're demanding political control over the story. They want the investigation moved into a friendlier political environment for them because they don't want you to hear the story from the actual agent himself. They don't want you to hear about federal immigration enforcement stories because, again, they automatically don't like the agency. That's the problem. Right. And again, this is the same crowd that opposed cooperation with ICE, opposed deportations in general, as opposed to any of the good stuff that ICE is doing. And then they say, well, what we really want is just some transparency here. No, what you really want is for ICE to be wrong, so you have another story that you can try to pull up for your political argument. That's what you want. And look, let me be very clear about this, because I I know that there are some, unfortunately, on our side of the argument who and I I've said that this is a concern of Republican tribalism, but it's it's Democrat tribalism too. Both sides partake in this nasty sort of tribalism where neither side seems to care much about the evidence anymore. Neither side actually wants to hear the full scope of the investigation or hear the story. You'll hear people on the left that automatically assume that the ICE agent is guilty. But then you'll have people on the right who say, I don't care what the investigation entails, you know, and and we find out and how it unfolds. None of that is relevant. I support ICE automatically in every case ever. And I'm not saying they'd say that verbatim, but that's a lot of the position that some on the right will take. And so I want to be very clear on this show. If evidence comes out showing that the agent acted wrongly, that should be dealt with to the fullest extent of the law. Right? Nobody should be above the law. I I don't deny that. If the investigation is conducted fairly and it comes out that the ICE agent did act with with with with levels of of you know frustration or or didn't act with justified use of force and killed somebody, the investigation includes, no, what you're saying happened, didn't actually happen. We've reviewed all the footage, your statement, your timeline, it doesn't line up. That's not what actually happened. Then of course he should face penalties for that. There should be investigations, there should be potentially a court case, a criminal trial, depending on how this goes. I have no problems with that. But that standard has to go both ways, and the left won't play by the same standard, right? Illegal aliens are also not above the law. Activist groups are not above the law. Local politicians, not above the law, right? And so when a country is invaded, and I know this is going to be hard to hear, but when a country is invaded, which is what's happened in ours, this is an invasion. I don't want to word it any other way because that's what it is. When a country is invaded, eventually enforcement is happening on our playing field. It's no longer, you no longer get to have it happening somewhere else. It's happening right here and right now inside our country because the invasion is right here in our country, right? It doesn't stay neatly on a line out in the desert. It comes to Houston. It comes to neighborhoods in your city. It comes to apartment complexes, it comes to e things like traffic stops and and stash houses. Well, that's what happens when the left seems to want to keep the border open for years. That that's the inevitable conclusion of all this, is that it has to come home because it already did. It came home when you let the people in in the first place. The people screaming the loudest about how bad this is and how they've turned it into a battlefield are the ones that created the opportunity for there to be a battlefield in the first place. They're the ones that made this sort of situation nearly inevitable. They tell people, hey, the border's open, deportation is cruel, ICE is illegitimate, and local police, you guys shouldn't cooperate. Law enforcement, this is enforcement, it's racist and xenophobic and it's it's partisan. And then and then they they're upset that law enforcement, federal law enforcement has to be in American neighborhoods. Well, that that's what's going to happen. You can't really, you can't really do anything else. That's what has to happen. And so, yeah, we should pray for the family. Absolutely. And yes, we should wait for the facts more than just the claims from an ICE spokesman, for sure. And the evidence should be released so that everyone can see it, everyone can know what happened. Um, but but don't let the left turn an ICE agent defending himself from an alleged vehicular attack into a propaganda campaign uh that the against the entirety of immigration enforcement. I mean, even if that comes out and and and is the case, you know what they're going to do with it. If that's true, right? Because it's not about to them this particular case. They want to say all day long that they actually care about this guy. They don't. He is a political tool for them. He is a biographical tool that they will use to hammer down their point. And their point is not that we had one officer involved shooting that wasn't legitimate. That's not their point at all. Their point is that immigration enforcement in general is evil and cruel and wicked and racist and problematic. And if this story, you know, the investigation gets concluded, gets conducted, and it comes out, hey, yeah, so this wasn't a justified case of use of force, all they're going to do is say, see, look, we told you, see, we told you. ICE is bad, iCE is evil. And if you were to reply and say something along the lines of, no, I don't think the problem is ICE. I think this one officer made a mistake. And he should be prosecuted if he did, but I think that's what happened. I I think that one officer did something he shouldn't have done. And he should be removed. Absolutely, if that's the case. But it's not for that. They don't care about this one officer or this one guy. They care about their political partisan argument, which is that ICE should be abolished and defunded. The same as the police. This is why they were demanding all the body cam footage. Not because they thought that there may be one case where, hey, maybe there's some sort of racism, but because they wanted, what they wanted was to find even individual cases where they could highlight that so that they could say, see, the police are the problem and there is systemic racism and police brutality. That was the goal. That was always the goal. And it's the same thing, it's no different here. Again, they don't actually care about the family. They don't actually care about the details of the story. What they care about is scoring political points. What they care about is proving that I should be completely abolished, that immigration enforcement at any single level, in any single way, is inherently evil and wrong. And they will use whatever story they have to in order to spin that narrative. As opposed to people that have functioning brain cells, say, actually, this is what has to happen because of what you did. Do I like that ICE having to operate in neighborhoods in our country? I don't. If I'm being honest, I don't want ICE in my neighborhood. I I don't want police officers lining my streets. I'm not interested in that. But that's what happens when you don't have an enforced border. When you're unwilling to follow basic guidelines of national sovereignty. This has to this has to happen now. They they created the conditions for it. And then they whine and complain when the thing happens that they opened the door to, that they essentially required to happen. You know how you could have prevented any Ice Hand from being in a neighborhood? Not opening the border at all in the first place, having the border as secure as it's been since the start of the second Trump administration, where you've had no border crossings. That would have prevented the whole issue. Oh, but they didn't want to do that because that would also be racist and cruel. That would also be problematic somehow. That would also be somehow a danger to the community. And so it doesn't matter what you do. What they want is the erasure. That's what they this is what they want. I'm being clear. They want the erasure of American culture, of your heritage and of your history. They want it done with. They want it ended so they can take over this country and rule over you with an iron fist. That's what they desire. And deporting the people who are primarily driving the cultural gap in our country, that is certainly, that is certainly their end goal is to rule over you in an in in the most un-American way possible. And you know this, and Mam Dani is actually uh Zoran Mam Dani up in New York City is a very clear example of this. And you can see it fully on display in that case. What happened? That's right. You have a foreign-born population problem in New York City. Nearly 40% of all of New York City residents are born in a foreign country. And now you have a socialist, communist, Ugandan-born Muslim running the biggest city in the United States of America. That is what they want. Right. And they admit this, right? You can read the Houston Chronicle op-ed, opinion editorial, that said, hey, you know what Houston really needs? We need our own mom Donnie. This is what they want. And deportations don't help them get there. They they hamper their goals and agendas. They want them to vote, they want them to become citizens, they want them to influence the culture of our country. And I say no. And I say, if this, and the investigation has to conclude, but if this is a case where someone was trying to hurt someone else, you're allowed to defend yourself. Again, we have a God-given right that they they should not and cannot take

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Houston Heat Wave Weather Update

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It feels like the nights here in Houston aren't offering a ton of relief from the high temperatures these days. It's because they're not. The city has entered the warmest stretch of the year during overnights, which means that more the the early mornings are not going to offer a lot of relief from the daytime heat for the next six weeks or so. As overnight lows struggle to fall below the mid-70s, the weather pattern through the end of the week will push heating values or humidity-driven fields and temperatures close to very, very hot, let's say very warm levels. Across much of Southeast Texas. Combined with humidity, it'll feel more like 100 to 107 degrees during the hottest part of the afternoon. A strengthening ridge of high air pressure over the Rocky Mountains is going to gradually limit widespread storm development through the end of the work week, even though enough gulf moisture does remain in place for the typical summertime weather pattern, which means that a few storms could develop near the coast in the morning before isolated thunder pop up inland during the afternoon. Most neighborhoods, I'm telling you, are gonna stay dry, so you can certainly plan for another very hot July day. Now, although most Southeast Texas will stay dry through tomorrow, a few extra-inch hours thunderstorms remain possible. Rain chances are going to increase Friday before climbing a little higher over the weekend, and I mean a little higher. Another plug of Saharan dust is going to move further inland tomorrow. Most people are going to notice hazier skies, perhaps more colorful sunrises. Uh the added dust could also affect air quality, uh, especially if you already have some sort of breathing issue. By Friday and the weekend, a subtle shift in the upper level weather pattern is going to allow deeper volumes of Gulf moisture to return. That combination should support scattered showers and thunderstorms this weekend, that's Saturday and Sunday, with daily rain chances continuing into next week. The added clouds of the rain aren't expected to end the heat, but they should keep afternoon temperatures in the lower to mid-90s instead of them climbing closer to 100. Houston has also entered the time of year when normal overnight lows hold at 76 degrees, which is the warmest of the entire year, which lasts from July 7th throughout August 18th. So you can expect more than a month of muggy mornings and very little overnight cooling. Based on long-term climate averages, the normal low doesn't fall below 70 degrees again until late September, with overnight lows on average dropping into the upper 60s by the end of September. So we have a couple months before we have cooler mornings. Until then, expect the combination of hot afternoons and tropical nights to remain a defining feature of summer across our region. With that report being out of the way, when we get back from the break at the top of the next hour, we're gonna have Brandon Wallace from Texas Scorecard coming on to talk about an investigation into a potential birth tourism hospital. Text in at 713-779-5978. That's 713-779-KYST. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. You're listening to Lone Star Conservative, and Lord willing, be right back with Texas Scorecard at the top of the next hour.

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Texas Scorecard On Birth Tourism Ads

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. And joining me now Wednesday morning, as always, we have Texas Scorecard, but it's going to be Brandon Waltons with Texas Scorecard. He's been covering the story about Governor Greg Abbott, directed the Texas Health and Human Service Commission to investigate Mission Regional Medical Center here in South Texas over some alleged birth packages. And this all ties back into the 14th Amendment, the recent Supreme Court ruling, uh, talks of a special session, what the legislators can do about it, what tax can do about it, so many different aspects of this story, as well as just what's going on. Welcome to the show, Brandon. Hey, always good to be on, Michael. Always good to have you on. Now I want to kick it off uh with some background. Um, and so can you kind of walk our listeners through those who maybe haven't heard yet, uh, who are at least for a good reminder, even just for myself, of kind of what what's been spiraling recently from the Supreme Court perspective, from the federal perspective, into things like birth tourism, but it all kind of just extends down from birthright citizenship.

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Yeah, so birthright citizenship, right? The idea that uh, you know, people face and from the 14th Amendment, that essentially if if you're born on US soil, you become an American citizen, which means that um you have cases of birth tourism uh where people will come over illegally, uh, in many cases, and with the with the test of having their child here so that they can have US citizenship, uh, whether or not they're going to stay here, when they grow up, uh, or or not. Um, and we see that happen from people from all over the globe, but especially you know, places like Mexico, but also places like China as well. Yeah, and a big uh a big issue is something that President Trump has tried to tackle, he had to uh he issued an executive order early on uh during his second term uh eliminating the political citizenship that was challenged legally uh as expected with the Supreme Court. And then last week, of course, the Supreme Court uh ruled that uh no, um that uh executive order was unconstitutional and that uh the constitution um according to the 14th Amendment and their interpretation of it, uh that that birthright citizenship um is uh is something that the Constitution affords.

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Right, absolutely. And I you know, there's a lot of arguments on the Fourteenth Amendment ex explicitly and what it says and what it doesn't say, and and of course the Supreme Court ruling is now issued that I mean their ruling, um, and so this is the way that it is in terms of what we understand citizenhip to mean, what it means to be an American. But all of that understanding still doesn't answer some of the the questions that I think are fair to have, which are okay, so even if the concept as a whole is true, what are we what's going on as a result of that? And you mentioned that there's something called birth tourism, where people are coming over into the country um who are pregnant or whatever, and they're having children who are then automatically granted citizenship. So when you say birth tourism, that lends itself to being more than just that it's happening and more that it there's an explicit push for it to happen. Is that fair?

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Oh, exactly. And this is uh this is something where where frankly there's been an industry made of it, and we even have it uh, you know, you have it happening here, um, where Latin American countries and especially Mexico um have people that come across specifically for the purpose of uh having their child be an American citizen. There's obviously a lot of benefits that come with that. Um you know, uh sometimes they can bring their parents over there uh uh um in in the benefits, like how much uh it's an industry because it's not just people coming across because they have this idea. What we've actually seen is that in many cases there are uh businesses in in in in this case that we're gonna talk about here in hospitals, um, that appear to actually be participating in advertising for that purpose.

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Yeah, and I I gotta say, as someone who's kind of been paying attention to this case, it certainly seems like the Supreme Court decision, uh for better or for worse, might have incentivized at least a bit of this, given that they said, no, this is totally how it works. And so if you can do it, get here. And then it's kind of reminds you of of uh the the claim from the Biden administration a few years ago, which is hey, we're not gonna really carry out deportations. If you can get here, we're gonna kind of release you and you can stick around for a while. Here's the app to know when you can get in. It kind of seems like this is an incentive structure. Um, and of course, as with any incentive structure, you're going to have people that want to make a profit off of it. And so I want to get into the specifics of this case. Can we start with the basics? Uh, what exactly did Mission Regional Medical Center allegedly advertise? How did this kind of end up uh in the governor's view? What's what's going on?

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So Mission Regional Medical Center hospital system down in uh South Texas um uh was advertising in Mexico. They had billboards in Spanish, um with uh you know advertising birth for less than four thousand dollars and and uh and and even had a website have my babyintexas.com. Um I think you know the implication there being uh that you know, hey, come across if you can get across here, and this was you know, the billboard was just filed away with the other side of the border in Mexico. Uh you know, saying, hey, if you can come across, you can have your baby here. Um those billboards they will say, uh Supreme Court decision they actually did there a few years ago. Um and uh but they had really sort of Supreme Court decision and uh pictures of them were deliberate um on social media. Uh the website has been taken down, the hospitals have the billboards have been taken down. Um the governor uh basically has directed the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to investigate the hospital um for marketing these birth packages uh national to attract birth tourism.

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Right now, when I hear birth packages, I kind of want to know a little bit about more about that. If we have the details, uh what exactly are we talking about? Is it just maternity care, hospital packages, travel arrangements? What what did the birth packages allegedly do we know what they included?

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Uh well the website is down now, but uh the marketing uh you know seems to be essentially, you know, if you don't have insurance, we're gonna you're you're all in birth cost, so it would it would be all that. Um you know, I'm not sure if it actually included hotels or or any uh travel accommodations, but again, this was a hospital that was um just miles away from where the skillboard was in Mexico and stuff. Um Yeah, this is uh uh you know, I think, you know, without explicitly saying, hey, this is a first tourism package, this seemed uh to be skating pretty close to that line.

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Now, another question I have, what exactly is Abbott asking the the Health Human Services Commission to look into? Because I uh obviously with the Supreme Court decision, there are concerns that some of this stuff could be defended as constitutionally protected, right? If you're trying if you're able to get the visa or whatever you need to get into the country, that you're allowed to do that. And if you have a child, that child is a citizen. And so I think there's some concern that maybe they're allowed to skirt uh what should be common sense uh through a lot of these decisions. So is he uh is it kind of looking towards state health care law, um hospital regulations? What what are what kind of investigation are we are we looking at?

SPEAKER_07 1:00:25

Well, he says that uh this kind of practice is is illegal under current law, and this has been tested a little bit right now in court um as uh attorney general came passing actually earlier this year, um another hospital um uh actually a post-tourism operation uh in Houston that was this one with targeting Chinese um citizens. Um and uh in this case, specifically the regional sort of uses some deceptive marketing claims in in order to uh in order to go after that group. Um in this specific case, uh Abbott says that birth tourism is an illegal practice, but he does go on to concede that uh the legislature does need to work to strengthen state law on the issue to eliminate the practice uh in Texas.

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Right. Now, um and and and I'm glad you you brought up the packs and things. I think we need to be aware that this investigation probably isn't going to stop at at Mission Regional Hospital. I think it's pretty fair that there's going to be a wider look at other hospitals or marketers in the kind of same sphere of of birth tourism. But I also want to hear uh from the other side from Mission Regional uh and their response uh essentially saying they comply with the law. What what's what's their perspective on all this right now?

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Uh whose perspective? Sorry, cut out.

SPEAKER_20 1:01:50

No, sorry, sorry. The the Mission Regional Hospital, their response to all of this.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:54

Yeah, so so the the hospital essentially came out and said, uh, look, we uh uh you know, there's a sort of a strange response that I had to pull it up here so I can see it. The uh, you know, they they essentially said that you know we we don't support or facilitate any unlawful activity. Um we're working to comply with all federal state laws and regulations. Now keep in mind that we said before birth tourism is an illegal practice in the sense that people can't come over uh with the express purpose of having children here. Um that that part is illegal. Now, the marketing materials they say, referring to the billboard and the website, uh know my baby in texas.com. Yeah. They said, well, they're no longer used due to, and this is what they said, any unintended misunderstanding. So uh, you know, is this all a misunderstanding? I I you know, I don't know.

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Yeah, that's you know, you can it's kind of like when you you catch your child with their hand in the cookie jar, they go, This this is a misunderstanding. My I I didn't really mean to grab a cookie. My hand was in there, but I wasn't gonna eat it. Like it was just kind of I I'm I'm lost as to I I understand that you gotta have claims and you gotta defend yourself. But misunderstandings as you have have my baby in Texas.com and offering birth packages to women to come into our state, I I'm a little and you put it in Mexico, right? This isn't in in the U.S. You put it in Mexico. I'm a little lost on uh what the where the misunderstanding was and where the I hope I don't get caught as I do this thing level is. Um and so they're not really denying that I guess that the marketing existed. They're just they're just saying that I guess they didn't underst they didn't want it to be understood as facilitating birth tourism. Is that is that their claim?

SPEAKER_07 1:03:35

That's that's that's their claim. And uh, you know, look, it kind of reminds me a little bit of um the uh gosh, the the housing development uh in in uh Liberty County, um Colony Ridge, right, where they were advertising uh in South uh Central America uh for people to come across and they won't check your social security numbers to buy land there. Uh you know, it's kind of a similar thing uh in in that case that was uh that was settled um with some legal action and uh you know who knows, maybe something like that could happen here too.

SPEAKER_20 1:04:10

Right. No, and I also want to I do want to harp on that point because I think it's very important on the birth tourism specifically part, uh, because I think a lot of people read the Supreme Court case and and they might think automatically at things like birth tourism, we don't really have a strong legal defense against them anymore. Um but the Supreme Court case, interestingly, is is not overly broad. It it is a little bit broader than, of course, a lot of us I think would like, but it's not overly broad in the sense that it doesn't require states to to end any sort of laws that determine who can enter, how they can enter, the purpose for entering. And so while if they're here and they have a child, that child is granted citizenship, that's kind of the end of what the Supreme Court has said as far as the 14th Amendment is concerned. So things like birth tourism specifically, the intentional purpose of bringing women over to have kids, that to be clear, I just want to make sure we're we're we're clear on this, that is illegal, correct?

SPEAKER_07 1:04:58

Well, that is illegal because of what accompanies it, right? So if somebody comes across to do that, they're doing so misrepresenting um their reasons for coming over. There can be visa fraud involved. Um there's of course the fact that in many cases these will be paid by taxpayers. So, you know, you can't come across to misrepresent yourself and then um and then Medicaid, you know, picks up the bill for the illegal birth or whatever. Um and so you it's it's it's one of those things where the the act itself of birth person has a lot of uh there's a lot of crimes that that come along with the process.

SPEAKER_20 1:05:34

Right, right. And so, of course, the big question I think on everybody's mind is with the the ramifications of the Supreme Court decision and cases like this one with Miss Mission Regional Hospital, a lot of the concern is hey, what can Texas reasonably do uh to stop a lot of these infractions? I think Brian Harrison has come out and called for a special session uh to make birth tourism a felony and to expand the enforcement of that. Um, I think Abbott has talked about maybe strengthening stuff in the next legislative session.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:00

Where do we hear the kid going forward if you look at the ability and the opportunity to do that? According to the country of how they practice that has been happening.

SPEAKER_20 1:07:12

Right. That that was my primary concern was that well, this was already happening, and that was kind of the way that things were already looked at. We'd already granted a lot of these practices to people who came and were born here. That was already the way things were looked at. But the Supreme Court decision did more than just solidify that. I think it also did provide that sort of incentive structure in similar fashion to what we saw again with Biden several years ago, saying, hey, if you come here, this is what's going to happen. Even if it was already happening, for that statement to come out alone was an incentive structure to say, well, then I need to try to get there. And so we'll see what Texas can do moving forward. As that's all happening, where can people go to see all the updates on stories like this and so many others across the state of Texas?

SPEAKER_07 1:07:50

Yes, of course. We're at Texas Scorecard.com or you can follow us uh on X at Texas Scorecard.

SPEAKER_20 1:07:56

Well, Brandon, as always, we greatly appreciate you coming on, giving us your time this morning, and uh for doing all this really important reporting so that we can keep updated on what's happening here in our state, especially in regards to stuff like this. But we we appreciate your time this morning for coming on.

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Absolutely. Thank you.

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Of course. With that being said, ladies and gentlemen, when we get back from the break, we're gonna come back and talk about James Tallerico. And this headline is very funny. It says, James Talerico's Houston campaign stop with black voters missed a key element. You won't believe what that key element is. We'll talk about it when we get back. Text in 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. And Lord willing, be right back after this break. So stick around.

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Talarico Stop And Transactional Politics

SPEAKER_20 1:12:52

Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative here on Patriot Talk 920. The lunchtime crowd was long gone by the time James Talarico walked through the doors of Mickey's Soul Food Cafe. The empty restaurant served a purpose as the backdrop of a grassroots campaign stop. The Democrat nominee for the U.S. Senate race dropped in to make his case to voters in third ward, one of Houston's historically black neighborhoods. Their votes will matter, they say. Polls show Taller Rico will need significant support from the black community to defeat Republican nominee Ken Paxton. No Democrat has won a U.S. Senate seat in Texas in over 30 years. After Tallarico ordered a plate of smothered chicken, two side dishes, and a dessert to go, he sat down with Representative Ron Reynolds, a Democrat from Missouri City, to talk with the restaurant owners and a handful of neighborhood folks and take photos. It was this small meeting that they say is a missed opportunity. They said Mickey's Soul Food Cafe was a fitting place to meet with stakeholders who have questions and concerns about how Tallerico will represent Houston and the black community. They said ideally Tallerico would have connected with third world civic groups, church leaders, small business owners, and even college students from nearby Texas Southern University. Unfortunately, there were not enough voters at this event. Polls have Talarico tied in the race with Paxton, but since this victory over U.S. Representative Jasmine Crockett in the March Democratic primary, there have been persistent questions whether he can win over the black vote. Tyler Rico, a former middle school teacher and seminarian, which is putting it lightly, has leaned on progressive politics rooted in his Christian faith, quote unquote, it's not real Christian faith, both on social media and the campaign trail. At his stop at Mickey Soul Food Cafe, Tylerico is featured on Radio Station 937, where he took questions and talked about the importance of outreach to the black community. In other recent Houston area appearances, he attended a Black Leaders' Brunch in Houston back in April. He was interviewed on KCOH radio in May with host Jerry P. Beasley and visited Prairie Review AM University, where he spoke with sub student leaders and university president Michael Sorrell. Talerico told the crowd at an interview there is no way to win Texas without black voters. Voter turnout in November, they say is crucial, as Harris County's had a poor voting record for years. In May, the county recorded the highest midterm primary turnout in its history, according to the Harris County Clerk's Office. Letitia Plummer, the Democrat nominee for Harris County judge, said she met with Talarico and his team during the Democratic Party's state convention in Corpus Christi last month. Plummer herself won narrowly against former Houston Mayor Anise Parker in the runoff. She said, I do believe that he wants to earn the black vote, and that he realizes it's not Jasmine's responsibility to get him the black vote. I just think that he needs somewhat of a listening session. She said that Talarico has identified maternal mortality among his priorities as Harris County has one of the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the nation, with black women facing the highest pregnancy-related death rates in the country. She noted there are many critical issues beyond that. She said, I don't think we're gonna have low voter turnout. I think Democrats are gonna turn out. I do believe the Republicans will turn out as well, so many people are engaged and concerned. She said, I recognize that oftentimes the black vote is taken for granted because we are so engaged. But I think every voter is at a point where they want to know that their support is transactional. They get something for their vote. She said, If elected as a county judge, I can't control gas prices, but I can control our county jail. So we need to understand who and what we're voting for and what power those in office have to make changes in our communities. And so this this opinion editorial says what critics fail to get is that Crockett, it isn't Crockett's job to deliver Talerico the black vote. That work belongs to him and his campaign. That's that's the claim, at least. And what stood out to me is not just that James Talarico, of course, had a campaign stop in the third ward. It's it's the larger lesson that you that the left hasn't really learned, and the right doesn't even understand about modern Democrat politics. This is a candidate who beat Jasmine and Crockett in the primary, who has leaned very hard into progressive branding, um, and who has been treated by national Democrats, Democrats all over the country, as a fresh face for the state of Texas. And yet even then, the complaint from the left, well, he's not doing enough, not enough outreach, not enough listening sessions, not enough community validations, not enough black civic groups and church leaders and college students, right? That's that's the sort of I mean, it is a treadmill. It just goes around in circles in identity politics, which is what they're playing. You can say all the right things, you can check every single progressive box, you can build an entire campaign around race and class and climate and abortion advocacy and LGBTQ politics, anti-Republican right or everything you need to be a staunch leftist liberal Democrat. And even then, it is never enough. It's not. The demand is always more. And that's the political world that Talerico finds himself in, right? He's not some moderate Texas Democrat being unfairly caricatured. He has made himself known nationally uh by trying to fuse progressive politics with what he calls Christianity. He has, as we all know, defended transgender activism, stood against Republican efforts on girls sports, um, he invoked the claim, as we all know, that God is non-binary as a justification for why people made in the image of God are also non-binary, really, and that boys and girls are ultimately all kind of the same. Uh public reporting is also noted his past comments on gender, abortion, race, religious, you know, issues. Uh for example, we just talked about the the drag issue. Um, it resurfaced recently. It was a big story. I went on Newsmax yesterday to talk about it. During the 2023 fight over Senate Bill 12, um, the the language is that he said that Texas has the best drag queens as his defense of why he wouldn't vote in favor of Senate Bill 12, which would have, by the way, restricted drag performances in front of children. That I think everybody should be able to agree. Yeah, that's probably not good. Sexually explicit performances, probably not family friendly, and probably in a state that cares about its kids, we don't want them in attendance. Well, Talerico wouldn't vote for that. No, no, no. He vote present. That's that's the issue here. James Talarico is not some moderate Democrat. He's not somebody that's like a John Whitmire. He is a progressive leftist. Right? And and the problem is that all of these, I mean, even his church, even the it's not even a I can't I hate even calling it a church because it's not a church. It is a building that maintains a level of social club. That that's that's what his quote unquote church is. They have sexually explicit books in their church, quote unquote, library. Right? Again, you you read through all of this on energy and and climate and abortion and all these things, he is about as far left as you can get. And so when when opinion editorials are writing and saying that he needs to earn the black vote, there are two things you need to understand. First, uh voters should not be treated like political property, which is what they're doing here. Uh it is it is it is not you know Jad and Grockett's job to hand over voters. It is not any politician's job to deliver an entire racial group like a campaign asset. Right? If Talerico wants support, he has to make his own case. Sure. Uh but that leads into the second problem, which exposes how transactional Democrat policy really is, right? The article and and additionally, uh every single major leftist activist in the country consistently frames the question as whether voters will get something for their vote, right? What can you give the black community? What do you mean, what can I give you? Good politics. I I I should give you a country to inherit. I should give you uh I make sure that your rights are defended and do the role that government officials have. What do you mean, what are you gonna get out of it? You want me to increase your welfare stipend? What do you what are you looking for? What what do you want from your politicians? What do you want to earn from them, right? They don't care about citizenship or share principles, law and order, right? Constitutional government. None of that's the relevant thing. None of that's what you know, what they care of government to do. No, no, no. It's what can you give us? What did what do I get that I didn't earn, but that you can promise me if I show up to vote for you? Right, which again is where we as Republicans have to harp on our message a lot and say, hey, our message is much cleaner. Voters should be treated as citizens, right? Whether you're a black voter, a Hispanic voter, a white voter, young, old, suburban, rural, whatever whatever you are, you all deserve the same thing. Right? You you all deserve the same thing, specifically from government. You avoid safe streets, fair, free, and honest elections. You deserve good schools, a secure border, affordable energy, lower taxes, and for sure a culture that doesn't sexualize. That should certainly be on the agenda. And the irony uh is that Talerico's problem with the left is just a self-created problem. He has spent years speaking these sorts of these sorts of progressive activist claims. And now he's discovering the the lesson that a lot of people are having to learn, which is that progressive activism never says thank you, it just says, well, what else are you gonna give us? Right? It's it's it's so funny because it's the preview of what happens when the candidate builds his politics on appeasing the cultural left. There isn't a finish line for you. There is no there is no final concession. There is no moment where the activists that are backing you say, That's a that's good, you did a good job. Applause for you, right? No, it's it's always what else can you give? And I said that's why the left has become its own sort of religion. It it really is a it has tenets of worship and it's never enough. You did you you tithe this week, that's not enough, you gotta tithe again next week. It's not enough. You did this this week, more next week, and the next week, and then it's it's never good enough for them. And and the frustrating part about all of this that I want people to keep in mind is that the dichotomy that I'm I'm finding very interesting is that most of what the left is hitting on when it comes to Paxton is well, wasn't Paxton, wasn't there an investigation into Paxton, and wasn't there claims of this and that years ago that were already litigated, already ended, and he was already chosen as the primary candidate. That's all relatively irrelevant. Those things are are irrelevant to the conversation. How about what James Alarico actively believes about politics and what he actively believes he should do when he gains any level of political power? James Alarico is is a staunch supporter of climate activism. He could say all day long, I'm running in Texas, I believe in affordable energy. Yeah, but you you're probably supporting these massive transmission lines because you want to use renewable energy rather than saying, hey, you know what, maybe this is not in the best interest of the people. How about what you think of data centers? How about we ask hard-hitting questions at Alarico more than just how do you earn the black vote? What are you gonna do for them? How about we go back to a time in politics where the goal was just to do the job of a government employee? An employee of the people. How about we go back to a time in our country where the goal of any politician was to do good in the role of government? And and reasonably so, even among you know, Republicans and Democrats, even though they were even back then they considered them major disagreements, by today's standards, they were not major disagreements, they were very minor disagreements. What does the tax rate need to be set at? What exact things can we can we allow? Right? What what exactly should we be we talking about when we talk about foreign entanglements? At what point should we be involved in foreign affairs? And to what degree?

unknown 1:23:54

Right?

SPEAKER_20 1:23:54

These sorts of things that back then were considered major, major disagreements as to how you viewed the playing field. But looking back now, we realize, you know, that that wasn't so bad. Back when the Relicans and Democrats just disagreed about by comparison, relatively minor things. And now we've got these insane leftist radicals that are running that that want to run of Texas of all places, by the way, that desire boys and girls sports, the desire climate activism, the desire abortion up to nine months, to desire all of these absolutely that and then that use on top of that, that use your own religion against you, that try to manipulate you emotionally with your religious language. Well, you know, Mary is an example of why abortion should be allowed. Well, you know, God is non-binary. Well, you know, I'm I'm a preacher, even though my church has sexually explicit content in our libraries. All of these sorts of things should be a massive warning sign to every Texan, even those who consider themselves Democrats, to say, yeah, this guy insane. Not not representative of the party at all, not representative of the beliefs of Texans at all. He is a radical. And meanwhile, the left is focused on how can you earn the black vote? What are you gonna give us? I mean, it it really is just comical irony when you think about it. With that being said, we get back from the break. We're gonna put the Supreme Court because the Supreme Court has now allowed Texas's App Store Accountability Act to take effect. Uh that, by the way, for those who may not remember, was the law that we passed that required parental consent for any app download by a minor. Um, and it went all the way for the Supreme Court to talk about, hey, uh what's happening? Is there need to be an injunction? Um, and they have, by the way, not ruled on the the merits of the case, the same as it often goes. Uh, they've just ruled on the injunction itself, which we'll kind of explain what that means and talk about it in the next segment. But if you would like to text into the show, the number, as always, is 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and Lord willing, I'll be right back with the rest of that story from the Supreme Court after the break. So stick around and we'll talk soon.

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Supreme Court Lets Texas App Law Stand

SPEAKER_20 1:30:14

So we've got this story coming out about the Supreme Court that has now denied a request to block Texas' App Store Accountability Act for mobile devices. It was passed last year, by the way, with bipartisan support, it was not just Republicans. Senate Bill 2420 requires parental consent before minors can download apps and mandates that children's accounts be linked to a parent's account. The law also requires age ratings for apps, which parents can view before deciding whether to approve the download. During the legislative session, the Texas Public Policy Foundation released research showing that 75% of voters support requiring app stores to get parental approval for teens to download apps. The law was had to take effect on January 1st of this year, but was halted after USHR judge Robert Pittman issued a preliminary injunction, which means that its enforcement was blocked, even though there had not been a ruling on the case itself. In the ruling, he said that the App Store Accountability Act violated fundamental rights and likened it to requiring bookstores to verify the age of customers before allowing them to enter. The ruling came after the Computer and Communications Industry Association, the CCIA, which includes Apple, Google, and Amazon, as well as the students engaging in Advancing Texas group, filed a lawsuit against the state. Attorney General Ken Maxon was quick to appeal Pittman's order to the U.S. Fit Circuit Court of Appeals. The court granted Texas's motion to stay the injunction, allowing the law to take effect. The Fifth Circuit reasoned that app purchases are commercial in nature, and the law directly and materially advances Texas's substantial interest in protecting children's data, safety, and privacy in a digital world. Texas not only has the right, but the duty to protect children from the harms of our modern digital space. And so this week the US Supreme Court declined the petition by the C CIA and SCAT to block the law, uh, which is its own sort of ruling. Therefore, that means that the law will remain in effect while the Fifth Circuit makes a formal decision on the constitutionality of the law, which means it would then be remanded back to the lower court again. It's it's a whole mess. The whole legal process is certainly messy. But what what we need to get in plain English from this, they're still litigating the actual constitutionality of the law. We still have a ways to go to find out if Texas has the ability to do this permanently. While we wait to find out what the court's thoughts on that are, we get to enforce the law. That should have been enforced the whole time. And uh that that that shouldn't even been debatable. It's obvious that this is not like just entering a bookstore and checking your ID. When you sign up, if you signed up, if you had bookstores that contain sexually sexually explicit content everywhere you looked, um, and had computers that had access, full undolone access to the internet, and you walked in as a child and you were gonna sign up for a membership that would have allowed you access to everything, and I think it would be fair for them to say, hey, you're a kid, where's your parent? You have to have a parent to sign up. That would be a totally fair thing to say. You can't liken it to something that's not similar. If you take similar standards, I think everyone would say, Yeah, probably should get parent parental support. And I've always said this, it's really one of the funny things about logic is that if you if you bring up in response to something true that I've said, uh, what that would mean for something else, the odds are not in your favor that I'm going to agree about your analogy. The odds are that your analogy would just show other areas that we need to improve. I don't know, I'll give you a very clear example of this in this case. If you tell me that this is exactly like a bookstore that has all this sexually explicit content and and and we don't check IDs, you're more likely to convince me that children shouldn't be entering those either without parental consent. You're you're far more likely for me to say, yeah, you know what, that's probably a good idea. It's much harder to litigate that. It's much harder to craft a law. This is very easy because it's technological. It's not hard when a child gets a phone to set up a parental account over it. That's an easy thing to do. And for those families who say, Well, I want my kid to have access to everything, which is insane, but if you believe that, then just approve everything they do. That shouldn't be a problem then for you. It doesn't take put two seconds out of your day to click approve when your child wants to download an app. It's very easy. And so I I I I'm a little lost on why people are up in arms about this. I think it's it's actually pretty insane that people are up in arms about this. But again, it it just highlights how much the left desires for your kids to have the opportunity to be sexually indoctrinated. That's that's what this is about. You know, and we've known that for years. Uh, when the when the guy who was running a lot of the marketing materials for Pornhub and other major porn companies uh was caught on videotape, uh you know, where it was the the the the sort of undercover agent sort of debacle, when he admitted, yeah, yeah, we do, we do kind of push stuff on kids. Yeah, we do kind of market, you know, if you can get if you can get them when they're young, they'll stay paying subscribers for life. That was the marketing standard of these pornography companies. And so we've we know that we have an issue in the technology and digital space. We know that. We're well aware of that. And people that care about their kids should say, right, hey, this is a good kind of law. Now, to be completely clear, I think that this a lot of this goes into parental responsibility anyway, right? I think that largely parents should be doing this sort of stuff anyway. If your kids are at an age where they're not trusted to download apps, they shouldn't have the phone, right? Which is really any age under 18. They should not be having a smartphone capable of even accessing those things in the first place. But again, it's kind of it kind of like reminds you of the issue of public school. I can say all day long the right response is to homeschool your kids. That what you should be doing is raising your own children in the fear and admonition of the Lord. That's the best way to educate from a an academic standard, from a success standard, uh, from a cultural standard, from a safety standard, by by any perspective, it's good for you to homeschool your kids. But I'm not gonna let public school fall by the wayside because let's be honest, public school, that's where the vast majority of students are attending. And they're gonna be the people that my kids grow up around and are gonna be voting in elections. I would like to see the public school fixed, regardless of if I use it or not. In a similar fashion, that's the same with this law. I'm never gonna find myself in need of it. My kids are not gonna have smartphones. It's not gonna happen. But a lot of kids are. And requiring that parents are at bare minimum afforded the ability every time to see what your kids are doing is important to the protection of the innocent. With that being said, we can get back to wrap up the show. When we get back, uh, we're going to talk about a new commission that's been formed. Speaking of public school, Governor Greg Abbott has now come out and he's launched a new commission on education reform. It's a teacher-led Texas classroom commission, which will develop recommendations with the goal of improving student outcomes, which we know is a massive problem here in the state of Texas in our public school system. We'll talk about what that commission is going to do and all the updates with that when we get back to wrap up the show. As always, if you would like to text in, the number is 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and Lord will be right back to wrap up the morning show after this last break. So stick around. We'll talk soon. Don't go anywhere.

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Governor Greg Abbott announced the launch of the Texas Classroom Commission, which is tasked with identifying new ways to improve classroom instruction and the quality of public education. Composed entirely of current or retired public school teachers, the commission is supposed to provide recommendations to the governor, the Texas Education Agency, and lawmakers ahead of the 90th legislative session. Abbott said by empowering those on the front lines of education, we will build on Texas' success and ensure that our state becomes the national leader in the education of our kids. The Texas Classroom Commission will be led by Courtney Boswell McDonald, a former math teacher and the current chair of the State Board for Educator Certification. McDonald previously served on the Senate Education Committee and has led several education organizations. House Speaker Dustin Burroughs said, quote, Texas teachers play a foundational role in shaping the next generation, making their work essential to our state's future. Last session, the Texas legislature made an unprecedented investment in public education, providing permanent teacher pay raises, increasing funding for the teacher initiative incentive allotment, and giving educators more authority in their classrooms. I look forward to Governor Abbott's Texas Classroom Commission building on that progress with recommendations that help Texas students receive the best education in the nation. And so the Commission is expected to begin its work in the coming weeks and issue recommendations before the start of the next legislative session on January 12th of 2027, which just as a quick reminder, right? Because I think some people are are forgetting this. If you count the months, you go August, September, October, November, December, January, we're six months away from the start of the next legislative session. It seems like the last legislative session just ended. Right? We're still talking about laws and how they're being litigated from last session. Yeah, it's it's been a little bit. We're now going into the next legislative session before we know it. I know we have elections before then, and so we're all kind of busy with the election time frame and the midterms. But the next legislative session is going to be there before we know it. And we need to be aware of all this stuff because the reality is that our public school system is not doing well. I think that's a fair statement. Even if you're pro-public school, I think that's a fair statement. Now, if you're, you know, anti-school choice and all these things, you have your own reasons for thinking that they're not doing good, though. That hasn't actually even started yet. And so if that's your main reason for the public school is failing and has been failing for 20, 30, 40 years, I have news for you. It's not because of school choice randomly making an appearance later this year. That could certainly make the issue worse in terms of less people will be attending. But the reason for that is actually the problems inside the public school system. It's not being caused by school choice. School choice is the result of a bad, un you know, just completely dysfunctional public school system. And so hopefully this commission will provide some insight. I have a feeling it's going to take a long time if we want to actually proceed fairly at fixing our public school system. It's not going to be a one-stop shop. It's not going to happen overnight. It's going to take years of honesty and transparency and saying, you know what, these issues are driven by a variety of factors, and teacher pay is not at the top of the list. I gotta promise you, it's not teacher pay. It is the culture, it is the curriculum, it is the designation, it is who you're putting in there. There's lots of issues, but hopefully we get it fixed. That'll do it for the show today. I want to thank everyone for tuning in, being a part of the show. As always, and Lord willing, I'll be back bright and early tomorrow at 6 a.m. for Thursday's edition of the Lone Star Conservative. In the meantime, I would highly encourage each and every one of you to enjoy the rest of your Wednesday. And Godspeed.