Ramesh Ponnuru Instructs Us On The Right Way To Love Illegal Immigrants By Marcus Epstein

The latest issue of National Review has an article by Ramesh Ponnuru [Getting Immigration Right: A headache and a half for the GOP, October 8, 2007 (Subscriber link)] in which he tries to expose, in his Olympian way, the flawed thinking of both the "comprehensivists"—whom he defines as supporters of a guest worker program, an amnesty with certain preconditions, and increased border security—and the "restrictionists"—whom he defines as supporters of an enforcement-only approach.

(Typical of the Establishment Right, Ponnuru’s belated awakening to what Peter Brimelow back in 1995 called “America’s immigration disaster” does not yet extend to legal immigration. On present form, maybe he’ll get around to that by 2019.)

Ponnuru [Send him mail] claims: "I’m not saying that immigration policy should be determined by the needs of the Republican Party". But clearly the thrust of his article is what policy will better serve the Stupid Party—and, of course, its media groupies, such as himself.

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