Here’s the Derb from Derb Radio today:

Rudy Giuliani has been clarifying his thoughts on immigration and foreign policy. It’s a mixed bag. On immigration, he seems to have bought into the notion that the U.S.A. needs, and has always needed, and always will need, lots and lots of immigrants. I don’t believe that. For the first 20 years after World War Two we took in almost no immigrants, yet the country went along just fine—in fact, we prospered mightily. On the particular matter of illegal immigration, Rudy says seal the borders, establish a “path to citizenship,” and set up more guest worker programs, to add to the half dozen or so we already have. In short, basically the Senate bill that we took such pains to defeat last month. On foreign policy, Rudy is good on things like fighting terrorists with covert ops—supposing that out current military and intelligence structures are still capable of covert ops—and he calls for better human intelligence, which is also good, though subject to the same qualification. He’s still keen on “reforming the world order,” though, and he still talks as though the U.S.A. has infinite resources. It’s great to talk about expanding the military; but when those invoices start coming in for retiring boomers’ medicare and social security, we may not be able to afford a military of any size bigger than the coast guard. Look, I still count myself a Rudy man. I want to get behind a guy who actually has a shot at winning the Republican nomination, and who strikes me as capable, experienced, and ruthless enough to be president in a dangerous world. Rudy’s still my guy. I think he still needs a lot of educating on immigration, though; and so far as the international order is concerned, I’d like a little more humility and realism. But Rudy’s still my guy, by a mile, faute de mieux

His full dispatch is here.