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According to Mark Krikorian a Congressman lectured witnesses today during hearings on immigration that "meatpackers need alien labor because 'we can't get enough people to work for $7 or $8 dollars an hour.'" Note well -- when I worked in a meatpacking plant 20 years ago I was being paid $8.50 an hour, starting pay. Think of that. 20 years of breakneck inflation, and wages remain unchanged. Even back then a good 1/3 of the labor force was non-American. Krikorian notes that a former INS policy director, Stuart Anderson, is now head of a group promoting open borders. Unbelievable. The guy was also once director of immigration policy for the Senate Immigration Subcommittee. And he styles himself as some sort of "libertarian" (he once worked at CATO). Remind me to write some time on the unbroken stream of fallacies contained within the "libertarian" open borders ideology.

UPDATE: Krikorian fisks the WSJ editorial page on immigration, and identifies its writers as "utopian ideologues: [with] an unwillingness to acknowledge facts that are inconsistent with infallible theory." Sounds about right.