Elite? You Got a Problem with Elite?

Immigration—everybody’s hot-button issue--and America is once again arguing across the metaphoric back-fence and having the very devil of a time trying to balance fairness and equity.

Immigration—everybody’s hot-button issue--and America is once again arguing across the metaphoric back-fence and having the very devil of a time trying to balance fairness and equity. All that intemperate rhetoric in a country that has become (within a single lifetime) anything but fair and where equity goes to the highest bidder.

But the Congress of the United States is its own strange melting-pot of ideals and money, where money has always held the trump card. Now, in a self-conscious argument between the even-handed and the wall-builders, it’s messing with the ingredients of our immigrant melting-pot.

As usual, it’s doing a bad job of it. But that's representative government, always messy and boisterous.

American immigration policy served our nation's first couple hundred years unashamedly filling in the …