Senate negotiators reach a deal on immigration reform, and the Republican base - at least as it is represented by NRO's Corner - is seething. Look for some excellent examples here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Wow.
For the record, I'm absolutely in favor of granting legal status to the millions of people who are already living and working here in the United States. Lou Dobbs may believe that we can round up and deport 12 million people, but even if we could, I cannot for the life of me understand why we would want to.
And all this nonsense about "guest workers" is just that - nonsense. Anyone who has spent even five minutes looking at the failures of guest worker programs in Europe should know just how absurd the whole idea is. Which reminds me - why is it that our politicians belittle so many of the genuinely good ideas that have come out of European social welfare policy, but this one they decide to accept?
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