Ricky Salazar

The May 2026 jobs report showed Hispanic unemployment at 5.1% and border encounters at 42,000. Enforcement without more immigration judges will trap mixed-status families and worsen labor shortages. Real security requires faster courts and mandatory workplace verification.

Washington's latest border compromise sold out American workers while handing corporate donors a fresh supply of cheap labor. Hispanic citizens like me want enforcement that raises wages, not speeches that ignore kitchen table math.

The 2026 border numbers show fewer crossings, yet the cost of housing, feeding, and processing migrants falls on taxpayers and low-wage workers. Congress should stop pretending enforcement alone fixes an economy that rewards illegal hiring.

Congress may pass another border bill by summer, but paper promises mean nothing without deportation capacity, visa enforcement, and a president willing to tell the world that illegal entry has consequences.

Mass amnesty rewards lawbreaking, floods labor markets, and undercuts wages for Hispanic citizens and legal immigrants who already follow the rules. Real compassion means protecting their jobs and paychecks first.

Hispanics who came here legally are tired of watching the border collapse while politicians pretend that enforcement and expansion are mutually exclusive, because they are not, and conservatives should say so without apology.

Uncontrolled immigration suppresses wages for American workers, strains public services, and sends billions abroad in remittances. Washington should enforce the law, secure the border, and put citizens first.

Working families still face grocery bills up sharply since 2021 and rents that outpace wages, even as illegal crossings fall. Washington should stop celebrating border optics and start cutting the spending and regulatory burdens crushing Hispanic and blue-collar households.

Illegal immigration imposes a net fiscal burden on Texas taxpayers that exceeds the entire budget of the Department of Public Safety. The legislature should enforce existing laws rather than raise taxes to subsidize open borders.

Open-border immigration lowers wages for low-skilled workers, increases housing demand, and strains public services. Hispanic citizens face higher unemployment and stagnant wages. Washington should enforce existing law, secure the border, and prioritize skilled legal immigration.

The May 2026 CBS/YouGov poll shows Latino voters drifting from Trump, but Democrats are not capturing them. The lesson for Republicans is simple: deliver jobs and paychecks, not just deportation headlines.

Congress is once again writing immigration rules that let large employers import labor instead of raising wages, and working-class citizens in Texas and Arizona are paying the price through lower pay and weaker bargaining power

Private equity firms now control roughly one in ten U.S. hospitals, gutting community care while politicians look away. Ricky Salazar argues conservatives must defend local hospitals from financial engineering and crony capitalism.

Myrtle Beach draws 20 million visitors a year and pumps billions into South Carolina's economy. Conservative governance built that. Federal climate mandates are the only real threat on the horizon.

The latest Pew survey of Hispanic American voters shows the realignment is not slowing. The shift on economics and on cultural questions has now persisted across three election cycles. The Democratic monopoly is gone.

Bernie Sanders' wealth tax bill promises $3,600 annual checks while imposing an annual levy the Constitution almost certainly prohibits. European nations tried this exact tax and repealed it. The check is bait.

A new study identifies a hidden Alzheimer's risk factor threatening millions of older Americans. The real story is the $360 billion caregiving burden crushing working families while Congress funds drugs they will never afford.

A DHS funding impasse stretched TSA lines past four hours at major U.S. airports. Working families paid the price. Congress hasn't passed all its appropriations bills on time since 1997, and you're the one arriving at 4 a.m.

Tariffs are paid by American importing companies and passed to consumers as higher prices. The Tax Foundation estimated Trump's 2018 tariffs cost the average U.S. household $800 to $1,200 per year, a regressive tax hitting working families hardest.

Virginia Democrats passed legislation mandating schools teach January 6 as a 'violent insurrection' while banning election fraud claims. The bill passed 21-19 in the state Senate, turning Virginia classrooms into partisan scripts for children who can't vote yet.