A friend emails to say that I overstated matters when I wrote, “The people who praise [Pence’s] plan are almost all the people on the pro-guest-worker-program/earned-citizenship side of the divide, and almost everyone on the anti-side is against his plan.” He lists Newt Gingrich, David Keene, Paul Weyrich, Gary Bauer, and himself as enforcement-first conservatives who support Pence’s plan. Fair enough: “almost everyone” should have been “most people.” But it’s still true that the most prominent supporters of the Pence plan have been folks such as Tamar Jacoby, Fred Barnes, John Fund, and other people who were sympathetic to the McCain-Bush-Hagel-Kennedy-Martinez approach to begin with.

About the Author
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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