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  • Managing Director, 30 Point Strategies and Writer, Texas Monthly
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Author, managing director, 30 Point Strategies; writer for @TexasMonthly, executive producer for @rmimmigration;

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Loren Steffy is the business columnist for the Houston Chronicle. His column appears on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, and he writes a daily blog (http://blog.chron.com/lorensteffy/) that discusses business topics. He has appeared on CNBC, Fox Business, the BBC and the PBS NewsHour.
He is the author of Drowning in Oil: BP and the Reckless Pursuit of Profit published by McGraw-Hill in 2010 and The Man Who Thought Like a Ship, published by Texas A&M University Press in April 2012.
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The Border Is “Sealed.” So What?

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By Loren Steffy Verified
| Texas GOP Vote
Authored by Loren Steffy In early May, Tom Homan, the president’s border czar, stood in front of a Phoenix convention hall full of vendors hoping to sell the government surveillance gear and told them the country now has the most secure border in its history. He thanked the Border Patrol, and, of course, he thanked the president. By the metrics he cares about, it was a fair boast.
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Washington Wants More E-Verify. It Still Doesn’t Work.

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By Loren Steffy Verified
| Texas GOP Vote
The following article is authored by Loren Steffy. For nearly thirty years, Congress has debated whether to make E-Verify—the federal system that checks whether new hires are authorized to work—mandatory for every employer in the country. It has never been able to bring itself to do it. The Trump administration has found a workaround. The White House Office of Management and Budget has released draft regulations that would require every recipient of a federal grant to enroll in E-Verify.
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This July 4, it's time to re-read Orwell's 'Animal Farm' | Opinion

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By Loren Steffy Verified
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George Orwell's “Animal Farm,” published in 1945, is often read as an allegory about Stalinism. But its true subject is power and corruption — and it applies to modern American democracy as much as to Soviet-era communism. UCG/UCG/Universal Images Group via G This is a more special Fourth of July than most. The American democratic experiment has endured for 250 years.
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