Sorry, J.J., but I found Drew Carey’s comments inane. He lost me with the first sentence:

“I think we should welcome all peaceful people to our country,” says Drew Carey.

But how many, Drew? A hundred million? A billion? Four billion? How many? And don’t the American people get to say anything about it? Every time they’re asked, they favor less immigration. Isn’t national policy supposed to be founded on consensus?

When I signed on to the conservative movement, I understood that one of its basic tenets was hostility to vast social-engineering experiments. What is mass immigration but a vast social-engineering experiment?