A More Nuanced View

As this report suggests, Latino sentiment on immigration is hardly monolithic. Don't expect to read this in the MSM; it's so much easier to cover the story as a Latino vs. racist matter.

But the Latinos who are here legally are smart, and they understand that, in order for them to get a foot on the economic ladder, there can't be a "reserve army of the unemployed" (in Harold Meyerson's phrase) constantly streaming into the United States illegally.

Most of all, however, legal Latinos understand that immigration reform is above all a security issue. Without the ability and the articulated right to control our own borders, how, exactly, are we supposed to keep America safe from terrorists?