His explanation makes his record sound worse. As he explains it, he had a policy of reporting all illegal immigrants who committed crimes, with three exceptions–letting illegal-immigrant children go to school, letting illegal immigrants get health care, and letting illegal immigrants talk to police. I can understand a policy of reporting illegal immigrants with those exceptions. What I can’t understand is making those exceptions from a policy that reports only those illegal immigrants who commit crimes. Is he saying that he didn’t want to deport illegal-immigrant schoolkids who commit crimes? What the heck is he saying?
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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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