The NYT offers the editorial "Hazy Days of Immigration". As you might expect, it's wrong. Just as an example, let's take a look at the final paragraph:

Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City said it well, at a Senate hearing: "It's as if we expect border control agents to do what a century of communism could not: defeat the natural market forces of supply and demand and defeat the natural human desire for freedom and opportunity. You might as well sit on your beach chair and tell the tide not to come in."

Mayor Mike's blather sounds reasonable, until you actually think about it. Which is clearly something that the NYT did not do (or thinks their readers won't do).

The current situation is not like the ocean. It's like sitting on a beach chair at Raging Waters watching the tide being forced in by giant underwater paddles, while at the same time staring at the $10 ticket stub in your hand.

The current situation is not an example of "natural market forces". It's an example of corporatism: companies that engage in illegal activity - wittingly or no - get cheap labor, and stick everyone else with the bill.

It doesn't matter whether the NYT can't figure this out, or thinks their readers won't figure it out. In either case, no one should trust their opinions on this matter.