Archives for March 2013

Piecemeal Immigration Reforms Can Work

Jim Gilchrist, MMP Exclusive — Proponents of comprehensive immigration reform keep telling the rest of us that the whole immigration system is so “broken” that a piecemeal approach won’t do much to fix it. That’s pretty lame reasoning! Let’s take a simple example of the dramatic effect a piecemeal approach would have on the problem […]

Release of Illegal Alien Detainees Pits ICE Against American Communities

Jim Gilchrist, MMP Exclusive — The release of illegal alien detainees by ICE earlier this week, ostensibly done as a budget cutting measure in advance of sequestration, backfired on the Obama administration. Instead of putting pressure on Republicans to accept tax increases during budget negotiations, the move powerfully demonstrated to a wary public that the […]