WSJ's Peggy Noonan: "stop illegal immigration"

I'm quite surprised given the recent kerfuffle over Rep. Tancredo's remarks that this common-sense column by Peggy Noonan hasn't gotten more press. It's by a prominent conservative columnist, and it appeared in an editorial space run by open-borders advocates. Peggy says:

In most everyone's family there was a grandma who used to sit quietly in the corner and say nothing. Then someone would ask her opinion just to be polite, and she'd say something so wise, so commonsensical, it stopped everyone in their tracks. And you realized that she was smart, that she'd lived a life and seen things.
In the case of illegal immigration in America I think grandma would say, "Stop it. Build a wall. But put doors in the wall so when the problem is over, you can open the doors."

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We don't really have to solve the problem forever. We just have to solve it now. One wonders why we don't stop illegal immigration, now.

Noonan's tone in the second half of the piece is in her folksy voice, one that irritates me sometimes. And her reasoning for closing the border, while valid, isn't what I think to be the strongest argument out there. Still, I'm very glad she wrote this. Even though she's an elite herself, she writes often and well of the need for big-time opinion makers not to lose sight of what regular people think. And regular folks are very concerned about illegal immigration--which she alone among her colleagues at the WSJ seems to take seriously.

(AS I opened up Movable Type to post this I noticed commenter Jake Jacobsen had taken issue with my statement that the Wall Street Journal editorial board are not internationalists looking to efface American sovereignty. Setting aside for a second the fact that Peggy Noonan is a member of that board, I know exactly what the WSJ advocates. I subscribe to their paper and usually manage to read it. I disagree with them on this issue, and I despise the hollow rhetoric they use to advance their position. But the fact that I--or you--disagree with them on policy doesn't mean they're enemies of America, or even that they don't love America and want her to succeed. They're just wrong on something important. I've been wrong about important things. I used to be wrong about this issue. Being wrong and wanting America to fail or to disappear are two different things.

And I'm aware that there are plans for a trans-Texas corridor, since I think it might bust right through my old hometown. But "building a big road" is entirely different from "establishing a one-world government".)