[ek_hornbeck]

National Review has been a disappointment on immigration for quite some time, I'm glad to see that they're starting to turn around. I suppose another way of looking at it is that things have gotten so bad with the latest round of invasions that even advocates of more liberal immigration policies have started to see the light and turn around.

[ek_hornbeck]

Points from the article that bear repeating:

4. Immigrants often serve our national economic interests by bringing skills and resources to the service of the U.S. economy. That is not the case for the largely unskilled and uneducated agricultural workers and casual laborers who make up the bulk of illegal immigrants coming from Mexico and Latin America. There is not very much in the way of plausible argument that these immigrants are very important to our economy, much less so very important that we should set aside law, caution, and sovereignty for their sake. Again, the national government acts for the sake of its citizens, not for the sake of citizens of other countries.

5. Immigration from nearby countries — and, to some extent, all modern immigration — presents absorption problems that were not present with, say, European immigrants in the late 18th and early 19th century. To have a few unassimilated ethnic and linguistic minorities is normal in a large, modern country. But it is one thing to have a couple of Ukrainian churches in Philadelphia or a handful of German-speaking communities in Texas. It is another thing to have a socio-linguistic Berlin Wall or three running through practically every community in the country. Adjacency to Mexico, along with easier travel and communication, makes assimilating Mexican immigrants more difficult than assimilating the Irish generations ago. This is not at all helped by opportunistic political entrepreneurs such as La Raza and MEChA, which cultivate racial sentiment and separatism within Hispanic communities. Some parts of the country, such as my native West Texas, have long been Anglo-Hispanic cultural hybrids, and that can be a wonderful thing. It is not necessarily a good model for the country at large

Both are a good refutation to the "they do the jobs Americans won't do" and "they're just like all previous generations of immigrants" lies that we're usually fed.

[Travis McGee]

U.S. Constitution, Article IV, Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, AND SHALL PROTECT EACH OF THEM AGAINST INVASION.

[FrankR]

What happened to the law requiring all immigrants to have a citizen sponsor?

[zeestephen]

They have only seen the “political” light and the “subscriber” light.

When this “Border Storm” passes, when the election is over, they will go right back to selling Amnesty and massive legal immigration.

Our Republican leadership is incorrigible.

They can NEVER be trusted again on this issue.

[Pelham]

“National Review has been a disappointment on immigration for quite some time,”

For a long time. They were getting bad as early as 1990 and simply got worse over time, firing editors who dared to write about the issue. I cancelled long ago when the adults were replaced by the GOPe Youth Brigade.

I wouldn’t put any faith in NR’s newfound concern. They are just mouthing the right words because the public is getting angry over the invasion.

National Review used to “stand athwart history yelling stop!”

Now they stand at the rear of conservative America yelling “wait! wait! I’m your leader!”

They are no more to be trusted than the sleazy GOPe they carry water for.