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f Newt Gingrich is a "policy wonk" as his friends proclaim, he is a very lazy one. He should have read the Kriebel Foundation's "Red Card Solution" before endorsing it as a non-amnesty solution to our immigration conundrum. The so-called Red Card Solution purports to create a new guest-worker program that solves all of our immigration problems. It strengthens border security, helps employers fill low-skilled jobs, bars criminals from participation and does all of this by "empowering the private sector" without use of taxpayer dollars. Maybe in the fine print it also wipes out the national debt. The problem is,...

Overview Turning a Complex Problem into a Simple Solution Very few modern political issues have proven more divisive, polarizing, and difficult to solve than the illegal immigration problem. It has divided Republicans and Democrats along stark partisan lines, but the divisions run much deeper. Proposals to reform the nation’s immigration system have also divided traditionally aligned factions: labor unions and civil rights groups, business associations and conservatives. Administrations and Congresses have struggled with the issue for years, unwilling to act on any reform for fear of alienating one constituency or another, paralyzed to the point of virtually ignoring one of...