In 2010 (5/3/10), I responded to a Ross Douthat column (5/3/10) calling for the federal government to “do its job” by “regain[ing] control of its southern border.” He mocked those who criticized such efforts as requiring “a ‘Nazi’ or ‘near-fascist’ law, a ‘police state’ intervention, an imitation of ‘apartheid,’ a ‘Juan Crow’ regime that only a bigot could possibly support.” I wrote:
Removing a substantial portion of an estimated 11 million people from the United States would require more than cards and walls; more likely, it would involve massive internment camps and forced transport reminiscent of Balkan ethnic cleansing, if not even grimmer historical precedents…. There’s no way to do such a thing in a way that could not be described as “draconian” in all fairness.
Here we are, 16 years later, and Douthat has gotten the kind of seriousness on immigration control that he wanted. How does it look?
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