The Republican Establishment Still Doesn’t Get It on Immigration

George W. Bush is sincere, earnest, but still wrong on ‘comprehensive immigration reform.’

It’s not 2007 again. But apparently no one has told George W. Bush.

To coincide with the release of a book of his paintings of immigrants, Out of Many, One, the former Republican president wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post plugging the sort of immigration package that went down to defeat in both his administration and in the administration of his successor, Barack Obama.

Bush is an unusually sincere, earnest politician whose views on immigration are...