The Founding Immigrants (Revisited)

-A politician claims that he can tell immigrants "by their shoes."

-A candidate for Governor of Alabama proclaims that in his state, "We speak English."

-Arizona passes an immigration law that one critic calls "appalling."

These are but a few of the blowups in the firestorm over immigration ignited by Arizona's recent legislation. That law prompted Linda Greenhouse, the eminent, longtime New York Times Supreme Court correspondent, to call Arizona "a police state."

All of this reminds me that...