CNBC – With Congress once again slouching toward immigration reform, it makes sense to look for who is lobbying lawmakers to shape the coming legislation. As it turns out, while Americans remain divided on immigration, the lobbyists are not. The Sunlight Foundation, a do-gooder government transparency and accountability outfit formed in 2006, released “Untangling the […]
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 […]
Boosting Our Economy With a “Free Lunch” Program for Foreign Entrepreneurs
February 27, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Jim Gilchrist, MMP Exclusive – According to Washington Post columnist Vivek Wadhwa, the latest version of the Start-up Visa program under consideration in Washington amounts to a “free lunch” for the Nation. So why not do it? [See column at http://tinyurl.com/aogttzt] Under this program, up to 75,000 foreign students and skilled workers will get to […]
Unchecked Immigration – At What Cost for the Rest of Us?
February 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Jim Gilchrist, MMP Exclusive – For those of us who value the rule of law, representative government and national sovereignty, these are indeed trying times. Our own elected officials in Washington seem more determined than ever to create a path to citizenship for 11+ million non-citizens who have crossed our borders to reside here illegally. […]
Immigration as a Public Charge
February 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Red State – Our immigration system is broken, but not in the way that those who utter such declarations believe it to be. Immigration can be an integral part of a pro-growth economic agenda. It can also become a public charge. When liberals lament our broken immigration system, they are suggesting that we don’t admit […]
