No Time for Statesmanship National Review Online David Frum As the congressional session zooms to its close, the bargaining intensifies - including the bargaining to produce an immigration "compromise." Into this high-pressure, highly dynamic situation, Congressman Mike Pence has tossed a new proposal: let the private sector do it! Pence's plan, to simplify more than a little, would offer working papers in the United States to any illegal who returned to his or her country of residency and asked for them. The job of processing these applications would be handled by private-sector firms who (it is presumed) would work...
