I still haven’t done my big posts on the Pence immigration bill, but the Washington Post’s Charles Babington gets a HUGE aspect of it wrong. “Pence’s plan would require all illegal immigrants in the United States to be deported…,” wrote Babington. Well, no. That sentence implies force. Instead, it would require that in order to get guest worker cards, the current illegals would have to “self-deport” in order to apply at “Ellis Island Centers” outside our own borders, presumably in Mexico. No government official would deport the people; the people would take advantage of the incentives to return to Mexico in order to become legal, under their own power and authority. The distinction is huge, and it’s key to the whole bill.
