Eric Early

We must secure the southern border. We can reduce the number of criminals entering our country illegally and deal a blow to the Mexican cartels who are trafficking drugs and guns in our cities. Follow the U.S. Supreme Court’s Bruen decision, allowing for concealed carry pursuant the 2nd Amendment. As California’s U.S. senator, I will travel the state talking to Californians about how their state representatives are responsible for laws which have currently led to a “criminals’ paradise” in California.

Arrest and prosecute violent criminals. Keep violent criminals incarcerated for the duration of their sentences. Increase sentences for those committing crimes with guns. Allow law enforcement to protect the law-abiding without shackling their ability to do so. Allow for concealed carry pursuant to the United States Supreme Court’s Bruen decision. Do everything possible to support increasing the numbers of families in which father figures are present in children’s lives. Invest in rebuilding our nation’s mental health system from the ground up.

Build the wall and send our military to the border to stop the invasion of illegal immigrants and to confront the human trafficking cartels. Work to put back in place all of the anti-illegal immigration policies that were put in place during the Trump administration. Make it cheaper and easier for American companies to get both H2A visas and EB2 visas for trained and necessary foreign workers.

This discussion cannot take place until we reach an agreement to secure our border. President Reagan granted millions of illegal immigrants amnesty in the 1980s without fully securing the border, and our illegal population has skyrocketed. I support a path to legalization (as distinguished from citizenship) and support DACA, but only in exchange for agreements on doing all that is necessary to stop illegal immigration. I support a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants who have enlisted in and participated honorably in our military.

The United States is huge, with each region’s economy differing greatly from others. The federal minimum wage should remain as is, and the states should have the responsibility to increase it as they deem necessary. Increasing the national minimum wage would only exacerbate our issues with inflation, would lead many businesses to close down because of an inability to pay increased wages, and ultimately lead to the loss of jobs.

Break up the big tech monopolies. This will encourage competition and create more high-paying jobs. Lower taxes across the board and give hard-working Americans more money to spend and invest. Prevent public employee unions and their members from involvement (monetarily or otherwise) in political campaigns.

Severe mental illness. I have walked through many homeless encampments.  You don’t need to be a psychiatrist to know that at least 70% of the homeless are severely mentally ill; many of them with drug abuse issues as well. Soft-on-crime policies like Prop 47, the elimination of drug courts and de-facto legalization of drug possession, and a lack of critical mental health services. The biggest factor is manifestly not insufficient low-income housing.

Housing affordability is mostly a state-created problem. I believe they should: Deregulate and cut the red tape handcuffing the housing construction industry. Provide developers and contractors with tax-based incentives to design and build more affordable housing. Do not support any statutes (such as some of those signed in California) which will undermine and destroy suburban neighborhoods throughout the state.

No. Israel is in a war with a multi-headed death cult that includes Iran-Hamas-Hezbollah-Houthis, who want to destroy Western civilization. I support Israel’s effort to wipe out Hamas. And I would support all bills that would continue to do what President Trump was successfully doing to bankrupt Iran — the head of the snake. I would also support the tens of millions of Iranians who want to topple the mullah regime.

This question is too broad and is subject to the facts and circumstances of each foreign military conflict. At the end of the day, the question must be: “What is in America’s best interests?”

I believe in peace through strength. Since Joe Biden entered office, there has been a feeding frenzy by our foreign enemies because of Biden’s obvious weakness and wavering.  We must be prepared to counter our nation’s greatest foreign threats: Communist China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and their satellites.

Increase domestic oil production. The United States has some of the best environmental safeguards and regulations on drilling. If we cut production here, we will continue to rely on bad foreign actors whose energy production adds to climate change and pollution. Don’t rush the EV revolution. The manufacturers and the general public are not ready for the EV revolution. EV range isn’t where it needs to be to be practical, and the charging infrastructure isn’t where it needs to be to foster widespread adoption. The market will prevail. Develop the nation’s nuclear energy sector. Nuclear power provides clean, carbon-emission-free energy.

“Clean energy” is a beautiful term. But if it means destroying and neutralizing our fossil fuel industry (as Biden, Newsom and others are doing), then my answer to this question is manifestly “no.” With that said, we should always work on developing “cleaner energy” but without destroying our Fossil Fuel industry in the process and without causing massive cost increases to be passed onto California’s consumers.