Bringing national awareness to the illegal alien invasion
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 [...]
Fox News – The Department of Homeland Security is releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants held in local jails in anticipation of automatic budget cuts. One Arizona sheriff described the move as politically motivated and dangerous. According to Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, ICE released more than 500 detainees in his county alone over the weekend. [...]
Jim Gilchrist, MMP Exclusive – It never ceases to amaze how politicians in Washington, once elected, suddenly think they have all the solutions that will finally set the Nation right. They speak with solid assurance, unbridled confidence, and unassailable authority that if we just go along with their latest scheme, there will be good times [...]
Idaho Statesman – The Obama administration’s deportation record is provoking deep political tensions that could narrow the president’s ability to make the concessions Republicans will likely demand as part of a comprehensive deal. In a private meeting with Obama at the White House earlier this month, officials with the nation’s leading immigration groups confronted the [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
National Journal – If you think questions of legalization, border security, and fundamental party politics are the biggest obstacles to reform, think again. The toughest issue may be legal immigration. It’s the stunningly under-appreciated policy linchpin to reform. Its politics are even more complicated than border security or legalization of undocumented workers. And the White [...]
POLITICO – All four Republican Arizona House members penned a letter Tuesday voicing opposition to the bipartisan immigration proposal rolled out in the Senate by the Gang of Eight, a group led in part by Arizona Sen. John McCain. In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) obtained by POLITICO, the four House members [...]
Amnesty 2.0 — The long-anticipated “immigration operating system” — is still in development, but that hasn’t stopped media pundits from sputtering with excitement over the projected benefits of the new iOS. The package not only addresses the bugs found in Ronald Reagan’s crash-prone Amnesty 1.0, it includes the most requested productivity features that promise to heal our ailing Nation in many profound ways… [Read More]
Jim Gilchrist''s Essay on Illegal Immigration, published by Georgetown University School of Law. [Read More]
