Nashville: The "New Ellis Island"?

Bob Moser writes a fascinating, in-depth and flat-out disturbing piece for the Nation about Tennessee's current immigration battles. Most interesting is how well-meaning, idealistic populists can, in times of social distress, turn their anger toward the wrong people. Story here.

Reason offers a lengthy look at why there is, in fact, no immigration crisis, and how not to deal with a non-problem.