Serving Whitman County since 1877
Donald Trump's speech in Arizona has occasioned wailing and rending of garments among the commentariat and "respectable" people everywhere. At bottom, the cause of the freakout is simple: Trump believes in immigration laws, and the country's elite really doesn't.
Minus a few trademark excesses that are too ingrained in the Trump shtick to abandon at this point -- e.g., we are going to build a wall and Mexico is going to pay for it -- Trump's speech was rock-solid on policy. The core of it represents what, more or less, any realistic regime of immigration enforcement would look like.
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