"Here it is, the Wall Street elite admitting in print they don't give a damn about the law, the law is for the little people."
Exactly. There is an elite in America which thinks the laws don't apply to them. Immigration laws, drug laws, insider trading/securities fraud laws.
Respecting and enforcing the law is a conservative value. Breaking the law and making apologies for lawbreakers is not a conservative value.
And, while the WSJ is using the image of a Latino housekeeper to support their call for reform, I would point to the Algerian, Moroccan, and Tunisian illegal immigrant security screeners at Boston's Logan Airport on 9/11.
An open, unguarded border is the handmaiden of the terrorists.
There is a Muslim woman in a head scarf at Logan who searches trunks at the parking lot. She may be Atta's sister-in-law, but she's probably legal.