Saturday, May 19, 2007



Wrong on Wall Street


The Wall Street Journal weighs in today on the immigration deal. And per usual, we get this kind of hyperbole:

Restrictionists are calling this "amnesty," but they were going to slap that label on anything this side of mass deportation. The public is understandably upset about the presence of so many illegal aliens in the U.S. But there is no evidence that voters want millions of foreign families—many of whom have been here for decades and have American children—uprooted and forcibly removed from the country. The restrictionist wing of the GOP simply wants no new immigration, and "amnesty" is merely a political slogan to kill any reform.

More here.

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