It can all be true — yes, all at the same time — that unrestricted immigration is harmful to some, beneficial to others, overall not the best path for a nation and will harm women while improving overall welfare by several measures.

And it can be true that those who oppose unrestrained immigration are both racists and largely right about the perils thereof, and that the left who defend open borders can also be racist (and usually are in their “defense” of immigrants’ rights to trample the rights of people already present).

Simpletons want to reduce everything to dichotomies, to some Manichean conception of the world.

If only it were so easy. If only.