I was pleased to see the Department of Labor's June 10th guidance on preventing abusive recruitment practices of prospective workers in the H-2A and H-2B programs.

We shouldn’t put that ahead of the health and safety and welfare of the American people.

It shocks the conscience that lawmakers who have a chance to do something, could change the situation, to improve things, would sit by and do nothing.

There is no doubt that Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, has made Texas a more dangerous place for everyone.

Greg Abbott made the state more dangerous over the last few years by allowing for permitless carry, basically no-questions-asked carrying a gun.

We have tried on background -- universal background checks, we have tried to make it harder for people who are mentally unfit to get weapons. Republicans have made it easier.

I don’t know how many kids have to die before someone wants to do something about it.

The American people have actually made up their minds on this issue. Ninety percent of the American people -- that means Republicans and Democrats alike -- overwhelmingly support things like universal background checks.

I remain concerned by the under-representation, for example, of Latino Americans at the State Department.

The new U.S.-Mexico Bicentennial Framework offers an opportunity to revitalize security cooperation between our two nations with a focus on human rights, public health, and accountability after the failure of the drug war model of the…

I was glad to see President Biden promise to reverse that change during his campaign.

The gun violence epidemic has horribly impacted American communities across the Nation. Texas is no exception, and neither was El Paso. In 2019 the El Paso community was shaken to its core when a crazed gunman drove more than 11 hours to…