Check out Eliana’s piece on Trump and immigration today. Obviously, the root of the problem was his endorsing mass deportation in the first place, which no serious restrictionist advocates but may have been necessary to his winning the nomination. Eventually, there had to be a reckoning. A tighter campaign would have figured it out behind closed doors then announced it. Instead, of course, Trump and his campaign have now spent more than a week awkwardly shifting in real time in public. It now sounds like they will land on a reasonable enforcement-first position:

The media will say that this is still dodging on the 11 million, but there is no a reason a politician should commit himself on what to do with illegal immigrants in the country until we have a sustainable, working system of enforcement.