Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org, I'm Ian Masters,

and today we'll look into a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with an anti-immigant law just signed by the Texas governor

that will allow Texas police to arrest anyone who looks suspicious with brown skin

who might not have the right papers on them.

Joining us to discuss the collision course between the federal government and the state of Texas

over this

cruel and unconstitutional power grab by Governor Abbott is James Moore, an Emmy Award-winning

television news correspondent who has covered Texas politics and has traveled extensively

with every presidential campaign since 1976. He's the founder of Big Ben Strategies and publishes regularly at Texas

to the world. Then with the US organizing 10 nations to police the Red Sea after missile

attacks by the Houthis have scared off international shipping, we will speak with Gregory

Brew, an analyst with the Eurasia Group's energy, climate, and

resources team, focusing on the geopolitics of oil and gas. In addition, he serves as the Eurasia

group's country analyst for Iran. A historian of modern Iran, oil and U.S. foreign policy,

he's the author of the struggle for Iran, oil and U.S. foreign policy. He's the author of The Struggle for Iran, Oil Autocracy and the Cold War, 1951 to 1954,

and Petroleum and Progress in Iran, oil development, and the Cold War.

And we will discuss his article at Time magazine,

how and why Yemenis Houthi rebels are poised to seriously disrupt the global economy.

Then finally, with Trump channeling Hitler with outrageous statements that, quote,

immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country.

We will speak with Jensin Machia, a professor in the Department of Communications

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