By Karen Gleason
COMSTOCK – A well-known conservative couple, Carrie and Jason Isaac, urged residents here to take concerted action to convey their fears about this year’s immigrant surge.
Jason Isaac, who served in the Texas House of Representatives from 2011 until 2019, is a member of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a non-profit, nonpartisan conservative think-tank. He and his wife, Carrie Isaac, who ran for Texas House District 45 in 2020, joined elected leaders from the Wisconsin State Assembly in touring the border and meeting with residents here on Wednesday.
Jason Isaac said those concerned about the border and immigration issues should regularly contact their legislators and make their voices heard.
“You should have your state representative’s number in your phone, and you should call their office. You should call your state senator. Call them every day and ask them what are you doing to protect your community because we are under attack, and you should do the same with the lieutenant governor and the governor, because the federal government is failing,” Isaac said.
He decried the overwhelming presence of the National Guard in Washington, D.C. “when we need them right here.”
“Two years ago, we recognized the threat that was happening, and we started an initiative called Right on Immigration, and we’ve already had a couple of trips to the border and in August we’re coming back and we’re bringing Texas (District 74) Rep. Tony Gonzales. We’re trying to bring members of Congress and state legislators like we have today, from all over the United States, down to the border so they can see what is happening here firsthand because that’s how we’re going to affect policy at the state level, not only in Austin, but in other states around the country, and that’s how we’re going to affect federal policy,” Isaac said.
“There’s $800 million already in the Texas budget for border security, whether or not that’s going to reimburse counties, I don’t know. Your county commissioners need to continue to communicate with your state legislators to make sure that money does reimburse those counties . . . The State Legislature needs to reimburse the counties for their jail expenses,” he added.
He encouraged those present to visit his organization’s website and get involved and said he and his staff are working on policy to address the issue of Chinese nationals owning 140,000 acres in Val Verde County “to put up a heavily subsidized, with your tax dollars, wind farm.”
“And we found out in February, the hard way, that it’s not a reliable source of energy. One hundred eleven Texans died because we didn’t have reliable electricity because a third of our grid is now unreliable wind and solar, that we have been subsidizing, at the federal and state level,” he said.
“We’re working to put a stop to that, to make sure we can keep the lights on, to keep our economic development engine growing and that’s what we’re working on,” he added.
