2/2 But if a majority does so, it’s legal cover for declaring open season on literally anyone the regime finds inconvenient or threatening. It would be the end of the US as we know it. Even if the ruling goes for Garcia, there’s no guarantee that it will be heeded -- also a terrifying scenario.

Americans have long viewed immigration as a good thing—well, at least the immigration of the distant past, the immigrants who helped “build America,” the immigrants who at the time were mocked and denigrated until they eventually “earned” the right to be here.

My wife and I are solidly middle-class. My mother wasn’t. She is in middle-stage Alzheimer’s now and requires memory care and you best believe that Medicaid is the only thing keeping us from spending down our kids’ college savings and our retirement savings, just to manage my mom’s end of life care.