Just as illegals are marching in the streets demanding not just amnesty but, let’s face it, open borders, the intellectual elite is increasingly coming to consensus that mass immigration is bad for America’s poor. After Bob Samuelson and Paul Krugman recently came out of the closet, Nicholas Kristof did the same in yesterday’s N.Y. Times:

“An influx of hundreds of thousands more unskilled laborers would impoverish them [America’s poor] further — and to me, that does not feel like compassion.”