Washington Post Editors Dislike Republican Immigration Positions
"The candidates in the Republican debate Wednesday night made a
great deal of sense about immigration -- when they were discussing measures they'd implemented as leaders forced to deal with reality. At least two of them turned to ugly nonsense as soon as they weren't defending their own records," says the Washington Post in an editorial. "Only Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Mr. Huckabee on Wednesday night declined to join in the fantasy that fences and border guards alone can answer the nation's immigration questions."
"At least Tom Tancredo, the Colorado congressman whose railing against immigration has become his mission in life, was consistent with his past. He had every right to say, with glee, that his rivals were 'trying to out-Tancredo Tancredo.' It was a perfect description of the evening," wrote Post columnist E.J. Dionne in a separate op-ed.
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