Just days before last Tuesday’s Texas primary, George P. Bush, candidate for reelection as Texas Land Commissioner, was out on the campaign trail touting his endorsement from President Donald Trump.

If you predicted this before 2016, you really should hang out a shingle and start charging for psychic readings. A lot of people will be lining up to get your stock picks and NCAA Tournament brackets.

George P. Bush is the son of former Florida governor and recent presidential candidate Jeb Bush. He’s the nephew and grandson of two former presidents, one of whom was also governor of Texas. Despite this glittering political lineage, or possibly because of it, the 41-year-old was in a primary fight for his political life.

This should tell us something about immigration politics in America.

After Mitt Romney lost the presidential election in 2012, the Republican party commissioned an analysis popularly known as “the autopsy.” Its most notable recommendation for the GOP’s future success was this: “we must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform.”

That’s usually understood to mean some combination of border security and limited-to-full amnesty for people who have entered the country illegally.

The autopsy’s recommendation became a central tenet of the Jeb Bush for president campaign. It also led many Republicans to believe that 2016 would be Marco Rubio’s year.

Then Donald Trump came down the escalator at Trump Tower in New York and said a few things about immigration that the GOP autopsy would have listed under “Cause of Death.”

Trump lost his contract with Macy’s to carry his line of branded neckties, but after that, Bush and Rubio lost everything else.

It should be clear by now that Donald Trump’s views on immigration, particularly illegal immigration, are not the politically toxic substance that the autopsy report claimed. If they were, George P. Bush’s political career would have been buried by his enthusiastic embrace of Trump’s endorsement.

This Bush wasn’t buried. He won the primary outright, without a runoff.

It may be time to recognize that many people, of all races and national origins, have a sense of law-and-order and fundamental fairness that is offended by the sight of elected officials openly working for the interests of people who have entered the country illegally, even those who have committed serious crimes while living in the United States.

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Hold off on Ruth Bader Ginsburg replacement: Tom Campbell For example, the city and county of Los Angeles have set aside millions of tax dollars to pay for attorneys to represent people facing deportation, a civil proceeding, even though no American is entitled to a publicly-funded defense in a civil proceeding. The mayor of Oakland issued an advance public warning of impending actions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in her city, even though the heads-up may have endangered federal agents or allowed violent criminals to escape justice.

Now California is being sued by the United States over three laws that protect people who are in the country illegally from federal immigration authorities. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ lawsuit contends that California has “preempted” federal immigration law.

The California Values Act, or “sanctuary state” law, limits state law enforcement cooperation with ICE. The Immigrant Worker Protection Act prohibits employers from cooperating voluntarily with ICE agents seeking workplace access or employment records. A third law gives state officials the power to inspect federal detention facilities.

Gov. Jerry Brown said it’s “war.” Maybe it is in California. But in Texas, it may be a sign of things to come.

Susan Shelley is an editorial writer and columnist for the Southern California News Group. Reach her at Susan@SusanShelley.com and follow her on Twitter: @Susan_Shelley.