No, but they are definitely part of the Open Borders Conspiracy.

Case in point: an editorial entitled "Our Border Brigades The nativist right is wrong."

You can leave comments at the page above, and read comments from other users. Here's my reply:

Your editorial reads like a left-wing screed, starting with the use of the word "nativists" in an attempt to smear your opponents and ending with the newspeak "undocumented immigrants."

While the chart is nice, it's also misleading. A better chart might include the money spent on interior enforcement, specifically workplace enforcement. How many employers have been fined or put in federal prison over the past few years? Perhaps you would care to tell your readers that instead of misleading them to believe that following our laws has failed. (See for instance this: "In San Diego County, only one owner, whose company hired workers for major hotels, has been prosecuted since 2000, and he was given probation. No business has been fined."

"Somehow draining the terror swamp in the Middle East seems a lot more vital to U.S. security than stopping busboys from crossing the Rio Grande."

A brief look at history will show you that any country that can't control its borders is in serious trouble.

"But there's no guarantee that even this--so insulting to American traditions--would work."

Illegal immigration is not an "American tradition." There are many other differences between current illegal immigration and that that occured in the 1800s and early 1900s. Most of those immigrants came through entry points, and were pre-selected by the shipping companies that brought them here. And, most people who came here did so for good and severed ties with the "old country."

"Or how about mass roundups and deportations?"

Why not get more hysterical, and suggest cattle cars and gulags?

"so if a policy keeps failing for nearly two decades maybe some new thinking is in order."

The policy of weak workplace enforcement has definitely failed. The policy of endless amnesties has also definitely failed. Remember how the 1986 Amnesty was supposed to be the last one? If the Bush/Fox Amnesty is passed, millions more illegal immigrants will come here in expectation of the next "last amnesty."

"immigrants today allow some industries to survive and expand"

Cheap serf labor does no one any good. If you care about American industry, encourage them to develop automation and improve productivity.

See, for instance "The Mirage of Mexican Guest Workers" from 80 Foreign Affairs No. 6: "...political leaders have often belatedly discovered that admitting temporary low-wage workers unnaturally sustains industries with low productivity and wages, such as garment manufacturing, labor-intensive agriculture, and domestic services. In consequence, the economy's overall productivity and growth suffer..."

The vast majority of Americans do not support the Bush/Fox Amnesty. Hopefully they'll make their voices heard in upcoming elections.

UPDATE: They didn't print my response, but several responses to this article are now available.

Almost all of the responses are negative:

-"The idea that we have tried to control our borders is absurd. We do not make the slightest attempt, and there are huge rewards from all directions for illegals."

- "The real story here, is how politicians have, for decades, ignored the clearly expressed will of the American people to stop illegal immigration and deport these law breakers."

- "I think you are wrong on just about every point you make in this editorial on border/immigration failures. Your name-calling of the majority of Americans who rightly want to control the influx of Illegal Immigrants, is repulsive."

- "Why not just declare open borders? After all, a few hundred million Chinese would help companies keep down wages marvelously. That way, U.S. citizens would be free to concentrate on high-value-added, knowledge-based jobs--at least those few not exported to India and China. The WSJ's disregard for the common American weal is disheartening."

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