Byron York: House-Senate showdown coming over border security

Published May 23, 2013 4:00am ET



If there were an organized opposition to comprehensive immigration reform — and there really isn’t, compared to the political/business/activist/lobbying complex in favor of it — the opposition would pound daily on the key weakness at the heart of the Senate Gang of Eight bill. That weakness is simple. The bill proposes to legalize 11 million currently illegal immigrants before imposing greater border security and workplace enforcement. In that, the gang’s priorities are different from the American people’s. An opposition would remind the public of that, often.

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