“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it,” wrote Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels of the concept originally coined by his boss, Adolph Hitler. Today, few lies have been as oft repeated and as consistently maintained by liberals and even conservative quislings on the right as that of the “noble immigrant,” a profile of someone better in all respects than your average native-born American - better at working hard, better at not straining social services and, most importantly, better at obeying the law. And as it so happens, these “ideal...