Despite Our Immigration Generosity, We Get Sucker-Punched

Jim Gilchrist, MMP Exclusive – Republicans are told by critics that they must accept today’s reality: 11 million people who entered our country illegally are here to stay. Get over it. Furthermore, Republicans must accept the inevitability of legal status for these people as they set out along the path to citizenship in fulfillment of […]

Tech Sector Offers GOP Political Cover for Immigration Reform

Jim Gilchrist, MMP Exclusive – One of the most insidious aspects of current immigration reform efforts is how easily our politicians have succumbed to the idea that our Nation will lose its competitive edge unless foreign students can stay here after graduation to start companies and invent things that will create jobs for the rest […]

New Assault on American Workers – Just-in-Time Immigration

Jim Gilchrist, MMP Exclusive – Just when you thought you’ve heard everything, here comes Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg, chairman and CEO of the Strategic Investment Group, to promote the idea of “just-in-time immigration” as an American “personnel system built for the 21st century”. Under this concept, whenever there is a mismatch between supply and demand for “human […]

Immigration Madness Continues – The Elites Finally Propose the Unthinkable!

Jim Gilchrist, MMP Exclusive – Writing in the March 10 issue of The Wall Street Journal Online, Argeo Paul Cellucci and Stephen R. Kelly assert that if workers were allowed to move freely in North America, the ‘path to U.S. citizenship’ problem would fade away: “Take the final logical step of the North American Free […]

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 […]