There’s a tale that Abraham Lincoln was asked, “If you call a horse’s tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have?” His evocative answer was, “Four.” Evocative because we learn so much about Lincoln from the answer. At least this is what I taught in school as a child. No one ever taught me what it taught about Lincoln or even why it was the right answer. I, in my “not going to become President” manner, am partial to…

My father believes that in every large organization there was a smart person in charge somewhere in a back room with a lot of common sense to whom you could appeal to straighten out problems. If he saw the 287(g) operation in San Diego, his belief would be shaken. The 287(g) program is the program defined in Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which provides for federal-state cooperation in enforcing the immigration laws. This is a small part…