The Midwest Coalition to Reduce Immigration (MCRI) was founded in 1995 as a non-partisan, non-profit immigration reduction organization. MCRI's primary goal is to educate Americans about the need to restore sanity to our legal and illegal immigration policies that should benefit the entire United States rather than only certain special interest groups. MCRI supports immigration reform legislation that strives to reduce legal immigration to its traditional levels of about 250,000 people annually and insists on strict enforcement of our laws on illegal immigration, including deporting those who have no right to be here.
Congresswoman Barbara Jordan "Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave."

 
Cesar Chavez "It's not a political game. People are being hurt and being destroyed with the complicity of the federal government."
- Cesar Chavez, founder of the United Farm Workers union and a vigorous opponent of illegal immigration, in an April 1979 speech to the National Press Club.

 
Senator Gaylord Nelson "...in this country, it's phony to say, 'I'm for the environment but not for limiting immigration.' It's just a fact that we can't take all the people who want to come here. And you don't have to be a racist to realize that."
Current United States population
US population is increasing by over 2.5 million per year! Since American women had voluntarily achieved replacement-level fertility (2.1 children per woman) in 1972, nearly 80 percent of our current population growth is related to immigration.

 
President Bill Clinton "The driving force behind our increasing diversity is a new, large wave of immigration. It is changing the face of America... No other nation in history has gone through change of this magnitude in so short a time... But mark my words, unless we handle this well, immigration of this sweep and scope could threaten the bonds of our union."

 
Antonio Garza, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico "There is no human right to enter another country in violation of its laws."
 

Recent Blog Posts

Chicago Tribune columnist helping to kill the dreams of American workers
04/27/2012
Steve Chapman, a member of the Chicago Tribune’s editorial board, recently wrote that “ America is where dreams go to die.”
If Hispanic-Americans are 'turned off' by enforcement of our immigration laws, the media aren't telling us why
04/09/2012
We've been hearing a lot lately from the mainstream media that Hispanic-Americans are unhappy with the "harsh" tone of the immigration debate and the "aggressive" enforcement of our immigration laws.  
Good grief! Has Illinois' love affair with illegal aliens come to an end?
04/01/2012
 I see that Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is among the 11 state attorneys general who just joined the U.S. Justice Department in opposing Arizona's crackdown on illegal immigration.
NumbersUSA shines bright light on GOP enemies of E-Verify: Boehner, Cantor, McCarthy
03/07/2012
President Obama, who for months has been telling us that jobs for Americans are a "top priority," doesn't need members of his own "immigrant-friendly" party to keep your unemployed friends and neighbors out of work.  

From the Editor's Desk

Why do many U.S. journalists act as though they can walk on water?
09/02/2010
Nobody enjoys offering a helping hand only to have it thrown back in their face, but that's pretty much the standard these days when asking the media to balance their coverage of...
Midwest Immigration Events
07/24/2010
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