Two important GOP constituencies, Big Business and Social Conservatives, are at odds over immigration reform. However, if both sides would take the time to actually understand eachother, as opposed to hurling insults this way and that, they’d likely find common ground supported by their mostly conservative beliefs.

Anti-illegal immigration advocates are not bigots. They care less about the color or race of America’s national fabric, than they do the institutions and traditions born of more than 200 years of civic evolution.