Icould fill this column several times over with reasons why the Trump administration’s immigration policies are cruel, unproductive and unfair.

Reading about widespread fears over the U.S. Border Patrol’s imminent incursion into Louisiana last weekend, my mind focused on yet another description for the unprecedented domestic crackdown by those self-described conservatives in Washington: It’s actually anything but conservative.

At least in terms of the values that I’ve always heard conservatives claim to espouse.

For one thing, the crackdown is anti-business.

My colleague James Finn recounted an infuriating anecdote about a small businessman — an entrepreneur who fits the mold of the people the Republican Party says it wants to help — losing a brand-new restaurant and struggling to ke

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