National Review
By David Frum
The last time America debated amnesty for illegal aliens, I was on the other side. The year was 1986. I was a student at law school and an occasional contributor to this magazine. I believed then that immigration was a great thing, the more the better. I believed that illegal immigration resulted from government failure to set immigration quotas high enough to meet the economy's needs. And I believed that amnesty constituted a reasonable and, really, the only possible response to the problem.
Where did I get these beliefs? How did I lose them?
Here's my story. Maybe it reminds you of your own.
Posted by tyne at June 19, 2007