I don’t agree with it, but I thought this was an interesting email:

Jonah;
Ezra Klein’s piece comparing Bush’s trouble over immigration to the democrat’s trouble with free trade was interesting, but not mentioned is that immigration and “free trade” are flip sides of the same coin.
American companies “out source” production to avoid government laws, regulations etc. which make employing and producing in the U.S. much more difficult and expensive than it would be otherwise. There are no such government regulations in China or Honduras. Products can then be “free traded” back into the U.S., avoiding the expenses that the government imposes exclusively on those SUCKERS still trying to operate factories in the U.S.
Not all jobs (waiter, lawn care etc.) can be out sourced, so businesses “in source” millions of poor illegal workers to the same end; avoiding government imposed difficulties and expenses.
The Republican elite would have us believe “thou shall engage in free trade” to be the unenumerated 11th commandment given to Moses by God himself. Republicans are always blabbering about free trade. When did you last hear a republican demand we eliminate the minimum wage or the mandatory 50% contributions employers make to employees’ social security?
The U.S. marketplace is a “free” trade zone for producers of all the world’s 200 plus countries except one, the producers of the U.S.A. itself. They try to make up for it by hiring illegal aliens. The combination of regulatory government, “free trade” and open borders is very destructive. I would expect persons more articulate than I to be talking about these three together but I hardly ever do.