Ammon Blair, Senior Fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and consultant for the Operation Lone Star Task Force, brings over two decades of U.S. Army service and firsthand experience as a Border Patrol agent in the Rio Grande Valley to his testimony before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government.
Blair addresses the constitutional boundaries of religious liberty, arguing that while the First Amendment robustly protects religious belief and practice, no religious or ideological system can claim immunity from the rule of law or operate as a parallel governing authority outside constitutional accountability.
He also raises national security concerns about the border, detailing how vetting failures during the Biden administration allowed illegal aliens — including individuals with falsified documents — to enter the country undetected. Blair warns that migration corridors have been exploited by transnational criminal networks and foreign-linked organizations, and that the resulting bad data is still hampering ICE enforcement operations today.
Blair is questioned by committee members on how open border policies may have created long-term security vulnerabilities that law enforcement continues to grapple with.
Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government