The Week

• In light of the unspeakable horrors they have suffered, please take a moment today to pray for the victims and survivors of Yale.

• Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio sparred over immigration. Cruz blasted Rubio’s 2013 bill, which would have let many illegal immigrants apply for citizenship; Rubio responded that Cruz himself favored letting many illegal immigrants get legal status; Cruz denied that he had ever said he favored it. Our own view is that neither legal status nor citizenship should be on offer to illegal immigrants until we are quite sure that we are shrinking the illegal population through enforcement. Otherwise these offers could act as magnets for more illegal immigration. Since abandoning his bill, Rubio has sometimes talked about an enforcement-first approach. He needs to do more to win conservative trust. Cruz starts from a much better position because he criticized the 2013 bill, and he has recently outlined a fairly strong plan for enforcement. He has also walked away from his past support for raising legal-immigration levels significantly, a policy that our economy does not need and that threatens to hinder assimilation. Both men have clearly shifted some of their positions; the good news is that they are shifting in the right direction.