Oh, the apples! They’ll rot in the fields without illegal aliens! Or so says the New York Times, for the umpteenth time, in a Sunday editorial-page piece that would be a parody anywhere else, but is presented with a straight face at the former newspaper of record. As veteran immigration researcher David North puts it, when employers face a labor shortage, they can adjust the wages or adjust the labor supply — and the later option is obviously the one they’d prefer, if they can get away with it, and saddle us with the resulting social costs. And the Times is doing its part to help employers keep wages low for poor people. The MSM’s new motto: Comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted.