Christian Collins - Founder, Texas Youth Summit Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, So it's bad enough that we've got computer nerds
and geeks going out there and creating apps like ice block,
which are intended to allow people to report on the
app where ICE is active, if ICE agents have been found,
or they have rumors of ICE activity, and so forth,
all to try to allow illegal aliens to flee the area,

(00:20):
and for others who are interested in obstructing to descend
on those areas and create chaos.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
That's bad enough.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Now at our universities, Texas A and M is facing
criticism after an internal email by the university provost and
executive VP ask staff, faculty, and students to contact police
that they see any federal law enforcement officers on campus.
What is going on? Christian College joins us now to react.

(00:48):
Founder of Texas Youth sum at Christian what's happening at
A and M?

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Well, thank you so much for having me on.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
And this internal email from Texas A and M's provost
and vising students and faculty report I sightings is deeply
concerning and betrays the university's role as an institution of
higher learning. I went to the University of Texas that
back in the day that was considered the more liberal
university in Texas A and M has always been considered
the conservative university of our state, and that just isn't

(01:19):
So they've been promoting a lot of things LGBTQ studies,
they push DEI initiatives, and I'm hoping with the new chancellor,
Glenn Hager, this will go in a different direction. And
you know, he's put out a statement that has basically
stated that he's going.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
To support the rule of law, he supports ice.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
But you know, the people working underneath them, they're subverting
this and it's deeply troubling.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
It is indeed, you know, and it's more than just
a lot of federal law enforcement, you know, being targeted
by the university. It looks like there's been a lot
of trouble. In the article in Texas Scorecard, they point out,
you know that the university, prior to the Department of
Justice blocking in state tuition for illegal aliens, Texas A
and M gladly gave that discounted tuition away the Texas students,

(02:09):
Texas residents, Americans. You got to pay the full price,
but if you are an illegal alien, get you get
the discounted rates. So there's a lot of problems that
would appear at A and M right now.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Absolutely, this is very disrespectful both to the taxpayer. We
are paying taxes and some of those funds are grants.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
That go to these universities like Texas A and M.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
And this is very disrespectful to law enforcement and ice
officers who are putting themselves in the line of duty.
They're sometimes going after they're really prioritizing the criminals. And
we've had one hundred thousand people last year die from
fetanyl overdose. There's been child and sex trafficking in our states.
I've been down to the border. I've seen what's been

(02:53):
called rape trees. It's terrible what's happened to little children,
and so for these people to subvert that, it's just
really deeply troubling.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
And I think there needs to be a continued.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Outcry and backlash, and alumni and donorshould withhold financial support
until Texas A and M recommits to its conservative guys
and stops enabling policies that undermined federal law, and Texas
A and M must return to promote integrity and patriotism
and respect for the rule of all, To get back
to and honor the Agne spirit and its taxpayers.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Do you have any idea Christian what the response of
the students has been to the letter by the university
president and the provost and also the parents of those students,
because a lot of times, you know, parents put their
kids in schools because of reputation, as you said, am
M had maybe past tense, a reputation as being the
more conservative school. But then you get them there and
find out this is what's going on there. So what

(03:49):
is the reaction of students and parents if you're aware?

Speaker 3 (03:53):
You know, people that I've talked to, they're very concerned,
and you know this is widespread and there's things going
on that A.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Baylor that have been troubling.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
There's been grants for things that don't belong at a
Christian school. And while Texas A and M is an
explicitly Christian school, parents many of the churches in Montgomery
County where I live, but throughout Harris County, and people
that are sending their kids to Texas A and M.
They're sending them there often with the conservative events, and

(04:23):
they don't want their kids being sent to a place
where everything is deconstructed. And I've spent a lot of
time with these parents. As president and founder of the
Texas you've sent it, and we work to educate and
until geneo Christian conservative values.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Many of those people are going off to Texas A
and M. And there's a lot of conservative groups.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
There by the way, Young American Foundation, College Republicans, Young
Conservatives of Texas.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
I go on.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
But there's a big conservative base there. But you have
some of the faculty and the professors and just undermining
those values.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, that's troubling and it's got to be very, very
frustrating for parents, like I said, who are counting on
their kids going there and not being indoctrinated, but in
fact being educated. Christian Collins, founder of the Texas Youth Summit,
thank you for the analysis.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
We appreciate it, sir, thank you,