For the Washington Post editorial board, nothing about Donald Trump’s immigration positions—his determination to enforce United States immigration laws, his focus on American workers, his commitment to stopping President Obama’s unconstitutional executive actions—makes much sense. (Amusingly, the Post calls such positions “un-American.”) But one thing that really seems to confound the paper is why Trump would choose to prioritize the deportations of those who overstay their visas.

The Post writes, “Just why Mr. Trump would prioritize visa-overstayers for deportation, and not those who entered the country illegally in the first place, is unexplained. Logic is hardly the point of his policy.” (The actual point of his policy, as the Post helpfully explains with both reasonableness and nuance, is to throw “red meat to the xenophobes in [the GOP] base” and “whip his supporters into a froth of nativist agitation” by launching “a crusade of mass deportations” while “playing on hatred.”)