Immigration critics sometimes despair that if we don’t fix this problem soon, it’ll be too late and there will be so many immigrants that we’ll be stuck with open borders forever. Pro-amnesty Republicans have much the same view, figuring that it’s already too late to do anything about the “surging” Hispanic vote, and so they’d better welcome our new Latin overlords or face electoral oblivion.

I never thought much of this line of argument, and now have definitive proof of its falsity: “A small but significant minority of French Muslims intend to vote for Jean-Marie Le Pen, the far-right National Front leader in this month’s presidential elections–a remarkable achievement for the politician known for his anti-immigrant stance.”

Jeez — if Arabs can vote for a guy like Le Pen, then a Republican Party that is optimistic and welcoming toward immigrants, but firm in its support of muscular enforcement and lower numbers, shouldn’t have any problem holding its own among Hispanics, especially if we reduce new inflows and let our still-strong (compared to Europe) assimilative forces do their work.