NEW TED CRUZ AD: If Bankers, Lawyers, and Journalists Were Crossing the Rio Grande, Immigration Would Be A Crisis.

(Via TalkingPointsMemo, which for some reason thinks this point is “bizarre.” Maybe Ted should have included “paid lefty shills” in the ad. . . .)

Related: Reihan Salam on immigration: “[Trump’s] emergence as the voice of the anti-immigration Right is a reflection of the failure of the Republican establishment to grapple with lawlessness at the border and half a century of mass immigration. Consider the events of the past two years. Child migrants have surged into the United States from Central America, and working-class cities and towns across the country are struggling to absorb them. Before the federal courts stepped in, President Obama signed an executive order shielding roughly half of all unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. from the threat of deportation, a move he had previously suggested was out of bounds. And now the U.S. is experiencing yet another wave of Central American arrivals. Border Patrol officials report that many unauthorized immigrants believe that the U.S. is going to welcome them with open arms, and who can blame them given the president’s rhetoric? The ongoing crisis in Syria has prompted a fierce debate over Muslim refugees, and the San Bernardino attack has shone a bright light on our immigration bureaucracy’s decision to admit one of the killers, Tashfeen Malik, an Islamic radical from Pakistan.”

UPDATE: From the comments: “If illegal immigrants were crossing the Rio Grande carrying Trump or Cruz signs, liberal journalists like Jonathon Chait would be demanding that they be shot.”