Citizen Lobbyist

Or don’t. There are better sources
The American public’s distaste for and mistrust of the New York Times is understandable. How else would Americans view a paper that would editorially welcome Republicans arriving in town for their 2004 convention with the suggestion they should embrace a policy of amnesty for illegal aliens in order […]

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By an amazing coincidence, John McCain makes the same argument immigration lawyers make in denying the bills he supports are amnesties. You can see for yourself by reading a copy of the talking points, essentially one falsehood repeated in various forms, circulated on Capitol Hill by the American Immigration Lawyers Assn (AILA).No one is […]

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Recently, a reporter asked me what I think is the solution to the immigration problem. Only half joking, I told him we need to make bribery illegal.
Spend a few eye-opening hours sometime searching the lobbying disclosure records on the U.S. Senate’s web site, and you’ll see what I mean.
If you search the records for […]

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A Washington DC construction supervisor told Jerry Kammer of the San
Diego Tribune that since the surge in illegal immigration from Central America to the Washington, DC area began roughly 20 years ago, the pay for installing 4 x 8 panels has dropped from $4.50 per panel to $3.00.
After adjusting for inflation, that’s a […]

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