Shikha Dalmia, Columnist

Conservatives Promote the 'Chain Migration' MythÂ

January 30, 2013 at 7:31 PM UTC

Shikha Dalmia, a Washingon-based writer, was previously a member of the Detroit News editorial board and senior analyst at Reason Foundation.

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On immigration, it seems, the conservatives' principle is conservation of anti-immigration bias. If they tamp down animus against one set of immigrants, then they must whip it up against another.

How else to explain the gratuitous swipe against "chain migration" in an otherwise excellent commentary in the Wall Street Journal last week by Jeb Bush and Clint Bolick debunking virtually every other immigration myth on the right?