Waxahachie Newspapers – Illegal immigrants make a rational choice when they decide to violate our immigration laws. They weigh the costs, including the risks of getting caught, against the benefits of a better life. We attract more illegal immigrants by reducing the costs through discretionary enforcement and improving the benefits through amnesty. The United States […]
Border Patrol Agents Seeing Increase in Illegal Entry
March 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The Washington Free Beacon – The recent release of illegal immigrants in detention, the Obama administration’s renewed push for amnesty, and the planned furlough of thousands of border patrol agents will result in more illegal crossings, immigration experts and border officials say. “It’s the perfect storm,” said Stuart Harris, the vice president of Local 1929 […]
Despite Our Immigration Generosity, We Get Sucker-Punched
March 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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
March 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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
March 13, 2013 By 1 Comment
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!
March 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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 […]
