As one illegal-alien spokesman after another claims that they’re actually Americans, and we just need to recognize that fact (a couple examples in this Post preview story on today’s marches), it’s hard not to conclude that the problem is that they really believe it’s true. In other words, our elite has so completely erased the distinction between citizens and foreigners, devaluing the meaning of Americanness to merely working and paying taxes on American territory, that the illegals (and legal non-citizens) actually have come to believe it — and are simply demanding the fulfillment of what they consider to already have been promised. Obviously, the point is not to excuse the foreigners’ will to power, but rather that you teach people how to treat you — and we’ve taught foreigners to make these aggressive demands against us.