CCP Activists Smear Americans As ‘Racists’ For Securing Their Land From Foreign Adversaries

Chuck DeVore  Visit on Twitter @ChuckDeVore

Too many Americans — lawmakers included — are falling for Chinese propaganda disguised as ‘discrimination’ concerns.

I sat in the Texas Senate State Affairs Committee hearing on March 6 watching a parade of witnesses — roughly 30 people, all but four were likely naturalized citizens or green card holders from China — rail against SB 17, a bill authored by Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, a Republican from Brenham, to stop hostile foreign entities from snapping up Texas land.

What I saw wasn’t just a policy debate; it was a masterclass in how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) turns American freedoms into weapons against us.

SB 17, dubbed “Stopping Foreign Adversaries’ Land Grabs,” is straightforward: It bars governments, their agents, and entities from China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea from owning Texas dirt. Kolkhorst’s aim is clear: Keep hostile regimes away from our military bases, farmland, and infrastructure, like Laughlin Air Force Base in Del Rio, Texas, or the ranches feeding our state.

The bill carves out U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents, meaning most of those testifying won’t be touched by it if it becomes law. Yet, to hear them tell it, you’d think Texas was resurrecting Jim Crow and the Chinese Exclusion Act to strip Asians of their rights.

At one point, a senior political organizer from the awkwardly named National Korean American Service and Education Consortium (NAKASEC) Action Fund Texas launched into a script that could’ve been texted from Beijing.

“SB 17 threatens to unfairly strip individuals of their property rights based solely on their national origin,” they said, warning of “invasive investigations” and “seizure without due process.” They invoked Jim Crow, claiming the bill’s vagueness down to weeds three feet high as a “public nuisance,” would target immigrants, even citizens, from “designated countries.” The kicker: “Discriminatory practices have no place in our legal system.”