Daniel Gallington: U.S. isn’t only one with immigrations ills

As the political flap over compromise immigration legislation demonstrated, we are a long way from resolving our border security and immigration policy debate — and the legislative debate has only scratched the surface for the wider public debate, which is yet to come.

And — xenophobic as we traditionally are — we have yet to examine how similar choices, some made more than a century ago, have affected British and European societies. In fact, we seem destined to repeat the mistakes they made.