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Last month, Republican House Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar introduced a new bipartisan immigration reform bill with a remarkable appeal to President Donald Trump: “Sir, I believe that you could be for immigration what Lincoln was for slavery and Reagan was for communism.”

That is an unsubtle pitch for an unsubtle historical moment. If it sounds absurd, consider that after Trump signed into law the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act on July 4, enforcement resources are now guaranteed at stratospheric levels. For decades, immigration hawks insisted that they wanted border security first, before considering any larger deal on immigration. Now, in Trump’s second

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