From a reader:

Jonah,
Whoa! Wait a minute!…We already HAVE an immigration policy!!!…We have
an elaborate set of laws and regulations covering both immigration and
naturalization issues and employment/labor issues. These laws were passed
democratically by our elected legislature, and signed into law and executed
by our democratically elected president. It is a perfectly good immigration
policy. Moreover, this immigration policy was carefully considered, voted
on, and made in the context of EXPLICIT political promises with respect to
the intent of the laws and with respect to ENFORCEMENT.
At NO time did the American public at large EVER evidence a desire for
MILLIONS of non-English speaking 3rd world immigrants to flood our borders
in open defiance of our laws and then proceed to violate not only these but
others as well such as motor vehicle laws and zoning ordinances. At NO time
did the American public at large EVER evidence a desire for such massive
demographic and cultural changes as are daily being revealed —- indeed,
just the opposite as the promises made by the political class at the time of
enactment of the various statutes going back to 1965 make abudantly clear.
The current situation obtains — entirely — from the flouting of these
laws and regulations by (1) the illegal aliens themselves; (2) the
employers, who for an essentially marginal, at best, economic advantage to
themselves are perfectly willing to violate these laws; (3) their enablers
and abettors throughout the political system who are COMPLICIT in the
law-breaking, and, indeed, often encourage it (see recent comments by the
Governor of Vermont re: dairy farmers and illegals…the freakin’
Governor!); (4) those with hidden and not so hidden agendas involving both
crass electoral politics and more ideological struggles.
And now they have the sheer unmitigated GALL to assert that they have rights
and to DEMAND that their fait accompli be crammed down our unwilling
throats!! The anti-democratic nature of the program along with the sheer
dishonesty of the debate, the Orwellian nature of the arguments and
propaganda being assembled by political elites, and the presumption and
arrogance of these elites that people can be hoodwinked yet again beggars
belief.