Immigration Madness vs. Reality: Facts Can't Trump Politics In Immigration Debate

An excellent, clear analysis of  how demagoguery and nativism are winning the debate about immigration. 

Facts Can't Trump Politics In Immigration Debate : NPR: "...despite evidence to the contrary, the visceral will likely continue to trump the factual as long as it remains potent political fodder. As it does now, going into the mid-term elections. Stoking those fires, critics say, detracts from the very real and more pressing border issues: Mexico's violent drug wars over an illegal trade fueled by American appetites and dollars." Sept. 8, 2010