Wednesday’s top headlines were a revealing expression of left angst over the government defending America’s law and borders, with some verging on hysteria:The NYTimes included a front-page photo of deported foreigners, although they were all males; apparently no pictures of young mothers with cutesy kids being deported were available:

Curiously, Democrats and their media never complained when Presidents Clinton and Obama portrayed immigration enforcement as a positive for the American people and the nation-of-laws idea.

It’s welcome and long overdue to see criminal aliens targeted for removal. However, the cheapie long-term solution for the mass infestation we suffer is universal E-verify at the workplace (bill recently submitted by Senator Grassley) where illegal alien job thieves are disemployed. The foreigners come to steal American jobs, and when employment disappears they have no reason to stay and are likely to self-deport.