Who hired Hillary Clinton?
It crept across the country with July Fourth’s summer dawn—the stunning realization that the Wall Street Journal editorial page had yet again flinched from repeating its once-traditional annual call for a constitutional amendment proclaiming “There Shall Be Open Borders.” Indeed, there was no triumphalist immigration editorial at all. Mothers hushed crying children. Fathers gathered in grim groups under the bunting-bedecked pictures of Julian Simon crossing the Delaware and Emma Lazarus producing the Declaration of Independence from an Ellis Island steamer trunk. Everyone had accepted that the Journal edit page had to duck in 1994, in the (vain) hope of lulling Californians into not voting for Proposition 187’s ban on welfare for illegal immigrants. And in 1995, of course, the edit page had to give priority to its (successful) disinformation campaign against the Smith-Simpson immigration-reform bills. But 1996? Were the Journal edit pagers demoralized by the devastating Rand Corporation report confirming that many recent immigrants are indeed failing in the economy? Humiliated at being singled out by Peter Passell, in his judicious column on the Rand report in the New York Times, because of their embarrassing hostility to evidence? Say it ain’t so, Bob Bartley!
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