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Signs are appearing that the Obama administration will soon begin a push for "comprehensive" immigration reform: ie amnesty. My latest column in em>The Week< suggests that comprehensive reform follows one of Donald Rumsfeld's famous rules: "If you cannot solve a problem, make it bigger." That rule did not work out so well the last time we applied it. I offer a different, more modest but more effective alternative: enforcement plus waiting for self-deportation plus time and mortality to resolve much of the problem.

As well, yesterday I recorded a Bloggingheads diavlog with my old friend Brink Lindsey. Among other things we discuss the (from my point of view grim) results of Brink's grand idea that libertarians join forces with liberals rather than conservatives.

Finally, here is a link to yesterday's broadcast on "Marketplace." In the auto crisis, don't just blame the unions. Blame the auto dealers too!