Thomas Friedman: Democrats should accept that US 'can't take in every immigrant'

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman once likened President Trump’s election to 9/11 and Pearl Harbor but he said Democrats should nonetheless adopt some of the positions he successfully campaigned on, including some on immigration.

“We can’t take in every immigrant who wants to come here,” Friedman wrote in an op-ed published Tuesday night. “We need, metaphorically speaking, a high wall that assures Americans we can control our border with a big gate that lets as many people in legally as we can effectively absorb as citizens.”