Let’s say, just for the sake of argument, that we fulfilled the conservative fantasy of erecting a twenty-foot wall on the entirety of our 2,000 mile border with Mexico. And let’s stipulate that we’d create a moat on our side of the wall and fill it with non-indigenous alligators imported from Florida, as presidential candidate Herman Cain advocates. Supposing that this project succeeded is stemming the flow of Latino immigrants, what would conservatives turn their attention to next?
Yeah, it’s a bit absurd to see a black man talking to a group of white Iowan Republicans about keeping the country racially pure.