President Trump needs to understand that America needs a more moderate level of immigration because it’s both good policy and good politics. Cheap foreign labor is cheap foreign labor, whether it’s legal or illegal, permanent or temporary, blue-collar or white-collar.
Today's Left attempts to "completely destroy" its enemies by concocting outlandish guilt-by-association smears. In American politics, we don't expect the Spanish Inquisition—but it's here nonetheless.
This discrimination in favor of immigrants wasn’t subtle, or imputed from “disparate impact” hokum. In many cases, Americans were weeded out by requiring applicants to speak Spanish, even though it had no relevance to the work.