Article: ELITES TURNING AGAINST ILLEGALS.(Editorial)

Byline: James Pinkerton

The immigration issue is turning. As Congress debates the issue -- especially the bipartisan plan for a half-million new "guest workers" to enter America each year -- a peaceful revolution is taking place in politics.

For perspective on the situation, we might turn to a past student of revolutionary change, Karl Marx. Marx was wrong about communism, but he understood the dynamics of political upheaval. So let's pull out "The Communist Manifesto," written in 1848, and follow along: When the struggle "nears the decisive hour," the ruling class suffers from "dissolution." After this breakup, "a small section of the ruling class ...

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