USING THE MINNEAPOLIS VIOLENCE TO PUSH IMMIGRATION REFORM. “Comprehensive immigration reform” has failed several times in Congress. The issue is too fraught, too complex, and the parties are too far apart for a fundamentally divided House and Senate to pass far-reaching legislation. 

Nevertheless, calling for “comprehensive immigration reform” remains a safe strategy whenever immigration becomes a hot topic. For example, when the public finally caught on to the fact that President Joe Biden had set off a huge rush of millions of illegal immigrants, Democrats ran for political cover. Rather than demand that Biden close the border, which they didn’t want to do and would also anger their activist groups, Democrats instead called for “comprehensive immigration reform,” which made them sound like they wanted to address the problem.” It was a safe harbor in a political storm.

Now we are in another storm, this time over events in Minneapolis. And some politicians, including some Republicans, are again calling for immigration reform.

In an op-ed in the New York Times, Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) proposes a “common-sense bipartisan solution” to the violence and disorder that have accompanied President Donald Trump’s aggressive effort to enforce federal immigration law in Minneapolis. 

“Congress and the president need to embrace a new comprehensive national immigration policy that acknowledges Americans’ many legitimate concerns about how the government has conducted immigration policy,” Lawler writes. He praises Trump’s record of stopping illegal border crossings and deporting 675,000 illegal immigrants. “Any balanced immigration policy would preserve and expand on this progress — but humanely,” Lawler writes, calling........

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