WSJ is calling conservatives against amnesty Nazis. It has officially jumped the shark.
Not really. The phrase "blood and soil" predates the Nazis, and I have on occasion over the years used it as a handy short-hand for the strain of American conservatism that sees American nationhood and American patriotism in terms more fitted to the nations of Old Europe in which ancestry and birth were the basis of nationhood, rather than fealty to the ideals of a constitutional order as is (or should be) the case for Americans. And, it is, indeed, that strain of conservatism which is most vocal against any amnesty for illegal immigrants -- though there are sound conservative arguments based on the rule of law for being against it as well.
Full disclosure: as FReepers with long memories know, I am dead set against any path to citizenship for willful violators of our immigration laws. As far as I'm concerned an amnesty into guest-worker status, or an amnesty into red card status (permanent residency with no way to attain citizenship) could be part of a grand reform including serious border enforcement, harsher penalties for knowingly or without due diligence employing illegal immigrants, a guest-worker program and adjustments to immigration quotas, but an amnesty onto track to citizenship is right out.
YEP...LETS SEE WHOSE LEFT WE CAN TRUST TO DEEP SIX THIS ATTEMPT TO CALIFORNIAIZE THE USA...? MICHELLE MALKIN, ANN COULTER, RUSH, SEN CRUZ AND LAURA INGRAHAM NEAR AS I CAN SEE...WHEW IT’S PATHETIC....HOW CAN THIS BE?