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Exploring `Deconstructed’ and Our Broken Immigration System

A few weeks ago, before the release of my latest book, Deconstructed: An Insider’s View of Illegal Immigration and the Building Trades, got delayed at the printer because of COVID-19, I did a podcast interview with Rational Middle producer Chris Lyon.

The book uses the family history of construction industry leader Stan Marek to take the reader through changes in U.S. immigration laws during…

“This is what happens when you have real employees”

The following is the third in a series of excerpts from my latest book, Deconstructed: An Insider’s View of Illegal Immigration and the Building Trades, which will be published in September 2020.

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Cars and trucks—mostly pickups—flow into the field behind the Knights of Columbus Hall in north Houston. The hall is old, but the event is older. For more than eighty years,…

Rational Middle Season 1 is a Wrap!

For the past couple of years, I’ve been associated with a free, web-based video series, the Rational Middle of Immigration. The goal is to start a discussion around the issue based on facts rather than emotions and misconceptions.

This week, we wrapped up our first season with the release of a two-part finale — “Undocumented in…

I Read the Quillette – Tanya’s Comment

  Tanya’s Comment on Twitter’s Trans-Activist Decree on the Quillette

I’m following the Meghan Murphy Twitter-ban debacle and one of the places where I landed was the Quillette.  As it turns out, Megan Murphy has written a piece describing what happened to her and her struggle with the totalitarian ideology of transactivism.  I liked what MM wrote, but I found the comment section more…

Rational Middle Energy Series: The Great Transition (by rationalmiddle)