For those who may share my fascination with the awfulness of the Washington Post’s immigration coverage, you won’t want to miss another recent corker by the policy geniuses on the Post’s editorial board.

Does anyone think that the reason there are millions of foreign nationals living in the United States in violation of US immigration law is because the government just never got around to allocating an extra $4.4 billion to enforcement? That’s what President George W. Bush hopes you think as he offers a new sop to, [...]

If you are going to church this morning, and you are a member of any of the major Christian denominations, think about this when they pass the offering plate: some of the money you give to your church is probably helping to pay for a big ad campaign pushing extremist immigration views.

April 30, 2007
Sebastian Mallaby is a columnist and former editorial board member for the Washington Post. He is also the Director of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies. His latest opinion piece, “Lazy, Job-Stealing Immigrants? Nativist Nonsense Distorts a Critical Issue,” is just more of [...]