Meet the man defending Farmer’s Branch on illegals

Yes, there were problems when the Ashcroft Justice Department put deportation proceedings on speed dial. Nonetheless, someone like former DOJ attorney Kris Kobach show how illegal immigration frustration transcends traditional conservative-liberal labels, and if you read about him, you’ll not only see that he’s not a monster, but the “eastern establishment” of Harvard undergrad AND Princeton Law.

Even The Nation got its hat handed to it a couple of years ago when it presumed that its readership would support a stereotypically “liberal” answer to this issue.

And, until Congress and a president do something, more and more, cities, counties and states will enact their own laws. If it becomes an ever-growing patchwork, somebody besides the National Federation of Business or the U.S. Chamber of Commerce had better start lobbying Congress for real immigration reform — including tightening.