The liberal lurch left on immigration

Many on the left are not-so-quietly dreaming of open borders. But they're ignoring some inconvenient truths.

A section of border fence.
(Image credit: Illustrated | LOREN ELLIOTT/AFP/Getty Images)

As President Trump steps back from the ledge on a mostly (though not entirely) self-inflicted political crisis at the border, liberals are shifting targets from migrant children being separated from their parents to families being detained at all.

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W. James Antle III

W. James Antle III is the politics editor of the Washington Examiner, the former editor of The American Conservative, and author of Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped?.