× CRACKDOWN! In Virginia, Republican state legislators are pushing a bill to bar all public colleges from accepting undocumented applicants, even if the kids were brought to the country as infants and attended public schools all their lives. Because that's what we want: Fewer highly-skilled, productive members of our economy. On the bright side, The Washington Post tells us that "The proposals are more restrained than past statewide efforts to deal with illegal immigration," though, to be fair, it's really rather hard to top the Draw-and-Quarter-Them Act of 2005.--Ezra Klein
