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GOP members of the House of Representatives lead by House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., have asked President Trump to halt new guest worker visas temporarily.

Federal law enforcement agencies would be prevented from using drones to conduct warrantless surveillance of U.S citizens under a new privacy bill proposed on Capitol Hill.

Rep. Andy Biggs, Arizona Republican, explained Tuesday that the Buzz Off Act he introduced aims to keep the U.S. from copying other countries that recently begun deploying unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, to enforce restrictions imposed as a result of the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic.

First a Dallas hair salon owner was imprisoned for opening her store to earn a living. Next Texas has signed a $295 million contract for "contact tracing," by which law-abiding citizens will have to submit to monitoring about when, where, and with whom they have been.

While this sounds like a dark episode in the history of the communist Soviet Union or China, it is being promoted by Democratic governors today on a massive scale never accepted in the United States. It even extends into liberty-conscious conservative Texas.

The COVID-19 outbreak that began in Wuhan, China and spread death, massive unemployment and economic dislocation around the world is just the latest example of China's long history of misconduct in its dealings with the rest of the world.