by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math
What Matthew Yglesias said. For at least the next year, it's much more important to get the rhetoric right on the immigration questions than it is to sort out the policy details. The best arrow in the Democratic quiver is probably support for tougher penalties for employers that knowingly or tacitly employ illegal immigrants, which also ties into the larger narrative that the GOP does nothing but serve the interest of big business.
