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In our national desire for global sainthood, we’re rushing toward the cliff with a speed and determination that would make a juiced-up lemming blanche.

There’s now a lineup of Canadian cities jumping on the sanctuary bandwagon – advertising full access to local services for undocumented immigrants, along with a “don’t ask, don’t tell” attitude from police.

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This is a feel-good response to events south of the border, and naturally enough, the flow of unknowable people across the 49th parallel has begun.

So far, it’s a trickle — 452 people we know of claimed asylum at Quebec’s land border last month — but it was January and word is spreading. So let’s do something our politicians rarely bother with and think beyond the righteous yet fleeting moment, but instead imagine some possible reactions such sanctuary proclamations may spark.

Imagine you’re an illegal Mexican immigrant in Texas – there are hundreds of thousands of such folk. You’ve lived quietly for years, but recent White House talk has you nervous.