The draft language of the platform said, “The Republican Party supports reforming the immigration system to make it more legal, safe, orderly, and humane.” A delegate asked how the system could be made “more legal”? After a protracted, fairly idiotic discussion, they struck the word “more.” So now “the immigration system” is supposed to be made “legal,” etc. What they want to say, I take it, is something like “reforming the immigration system to make it more conducive to compliance with the law, safe,” etc.; but it could take many, many hours for them to figure out that they have a problem (besides the substantive disagreement among delegates about legalizing a previously illegal status).

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Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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