In the early 1980s the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People abandoned its support for forced bussing to integrate school students because too many supporters of the NAACP were losing elections due to their support of forced bussing. It is now time for conservatives to abandon their support of immigration restrictions not because it is costing them support from moderates but because it is creating a civil war among conservatives.Proposed solutions to immigration at the expense of civil liberties and states’ rights are unacceptable to limited-government conservatives, and they are also unacceptable to pro-life Catholics who have sympathy for immigrants. The emphasis on immigration restrictions at the expense of limited government and Catholic principles are conduc
