A bit on immigration

I wrote a rather lengthy piece on immigration, it's politics, and tonight's speech(it's here.) I think it's a really good post going into the roots of the problem, the politics of the current situation, the faultlines between both big business and the Republican grassroots, and the differing electoral strategies of the House and Senate members. But, I decided to back archive it, because nothing I wrote is more scything than this from Atrios.

I know what they're thinking at the White House. We can have a lovely little "fake war" at the border, one with all the cool uniforms, hummers, helicopters, etc... A war which is entirely safe. A war where there isn't really an enemy. And the president can safely visit that war, prance around in his codpiece, yell things out a bullhorn while sitting astride a massive hummer.

Ridiculous, but that's probably the plan.

Brilliant.