Richard: I am sorry to say — and say only because the rising chorus of voices from reader-land urging me to say is too loud to ignore — that if you didn’t quite let a rather large cat out of the open-borders bag in your last post, you surely gave us a glimpse of his whiskers.

The thing that struck me about the immigrants I met, whether they were entrepreneurs or workers, was their raw determination to use American freedom to better themselves and their families. If they swam across the Rio Grande to get that opportunity, I thought the more of them for it — and still do. They stood out in the ghetto. They were different.

Different from whom, Richard?