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There's so much wrong with Frum's embarrassing immigration piece that it's hard to know where to start.

Gonna focus for a minute on his central premise.
Frum claims that there is no room to discuss immigration control on the left, so we cede the whole issue to the ethno-nationalist hard-right.

This is the diametric opposite of reality, where only the left has shown any willingness to compromise.
For over a decade, the broad left has championed Comprehensive Immigration Reform, which is absolutely NOT a progressive approach.

It gives immigration restrictionists almost everything they want -- more "border security," internal controls, E-Verify, etc. -- in exchange for...
... backlog reduction & legalization for those undocumented migrants who have been in this country for a lengthy period and pay any back taxes and some steep fines.

So the idea that we aren't talking about this stuff is just a ludicrous strawman. Again, it's just embarrassing.
And let me just say how frustrating it is that this is exactly the kind of centrist, ostensibly bipartisan solution that all the pundits seem to almost obsessively crave, and yet they all make it seem like it's a progressive thing that conservatives have solid grounds to despise.
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