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20 Sep 2019
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Lopez Discusses the Immigration Process and Border Security on Comcast Newsmakers

WATCH: HLF President Mario H. Lopez appears on a Comcast Newsmakers segment to discuss the legal immigration process.  Lopez makes the point that making legal immigration extraordinarily difficult has increased illegal immigration.  Streamlining and modernizing this process will help both our economy and border security.    

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18 Sep 2019
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Foreign “Sugar Dumps” Continue to Hurt Our Economy

It is easy for most Americans to not fully realize the effects of the sugar market on our economy. Sugar is an essential component to our agriculture industry that involves jobs, revenues, and affects the price of many other products. Recently, India’s government announced it would be pumping more government subsidies into its country’s sugar production industry. This continued practice of foreign governments “rigging the game” through billions in subsidies to their sugar farmers is continuing to hurt the global market, including conditions right here in the United States. These “sugar dumps” give foreign suppliers an unfair advantage against American...

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06 Aug 2019
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HHS Drug Importation Plan is Not the Right Remedy for Prescription Costs

The Department of Health and Human Services recently announced a “Safe Importation Action Plan” to address the high costs of prescription medicines. The proposed plan would set up a system which would channel drugs from Canada, outside of the scope of many of our nation’s safety standards, and deliver them to American patients. Up to 99% of these drugs don’t meet the standards of the Food and Drug Administration, and four former leaders of the FDA have voiced concerns to lawmakers over safety issues regarding the importation of drugs from other countries. While Canada regulates its domestic supply, it cannot...

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21 Jun 2019
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The Free Market Remains the Internet’s Strongest Ally

The internet continues to propel American small business, allowing for a terrific increase in economic opportunity across sectors.  This climate has developed because we have let a free market, ‘light touch’ approach that allows the internet to belong to the people. Some politicians that want a stark increase in federal government involvement that would hurt how private citizens use the internet, and this month is a great reminder of the extraordinary predictions from some quarters of what would happen when the Federal Communications Commission repealed a past political attempt to increase government control of the Internet. They were wrong. The...

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04 Jun 2019
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Statement on U.S. House Bill Affecting Dreamers and those Under Temporary Protected Status

WASHINGTON, D.C.–The Hispanic Leadership Fund has released the following statement regarding the American Dream and Promise Act of 2019, immigration legislation scheduled for a floor vote today in the U.S. House of Representatives. “Just like the solid majorities of voters in both parties, the Hispanic Leadership Fund continues to support a legislative fix that will allow Dreamers and TPS recipients to continue their positive contributions to the American economy,” said HLF president Mario H. Lopez.  “However, the much bigger issue is that attempts to fix any aspect of immigration policy must be bipartisan in order to be more than empty...

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24 May 2019
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New Study on Foreign Sugar Subsidies

As foreign suppliers jockey for position in the evolving global economy, it’s time for lawmakers to take a stand against a “hack” some countries have been using to give their sugar industries an unfair advantage over our own. A new study published by Texas Tech University illustrates that many foreign competitors are channeling billions of dollars in subsidies into their sugar production and trade models. Examples of that practice include Brazil, who subsidized $2.5 billion for promotion of its sugar and ethanol industry, India whose $1.7 billion in subsidies were brought into question by the World Trade Organization, and Thailand...

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11 Mar 2019
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Protecting Consumer Privacy in the Digital Age Can Also be Good for Business

Engaging others in the digital age is likely to mean sharing personal information through the internet with the rest of the world.  Tens of millions of consumers share extraordinary amounts of information–family pictures on social media, financial data from online purchases, and everything in between.  With data multiplying so rapidly, it is now critical to protect consumer privacy for all American. There has been some legislation proposed in Congress.  Proposed policies include conditions like notifying users over how their information is being used, while prohibiting companies from enforcing penalties if the user requests their data not be used or sold. ...

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04 Feb 2019
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Authorities Move to Address Robocall Scams that Hurt Consumers

There is an excellent chance that you’ve received a robocall recently.  These recorded messages have become a regular, unwanted presence of unsolicited sales calls and over the phone identity theft and other schemes that now total into the billions each year. The organizations behind these calls are operating with the intentions of catching unaware consumers and scamming them into a sale or scaring them into disclosing personal information.  One common scheme seeks to collect social security numbers in a call that purports to come from the IRS. Many times, calls target underserved and vulnerable communities.  People may receive frightening messages...

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