They should have an idiot alert with that thinking in a 9/11 world.
They should have an idiot alert for posting a 5 year old article.
Although the WSJ has a conservative editorial page, it must be rembered that it's a "business and money" first paper. It represents those business interests that LOVE the illegal cheap labor.
There are many "conservative" publications that fall into the same category -- for example, The Weekly Standard. Fred "no borders" Barnes and his boss Bill "come all!" Kristol are in the same league.
Look -- this is one reason Republicans (but NOT conservatives) are divided. There is that faction of business interest groups that love the low illegal wages, and there is the group of cynical, idiotic politicians that are selling the country out in the vain hope getting a chunk of the Hispanic vote.
They don't give a damn about the social, economic, and national security problems our disastrous, unsecured border policy is bringing us -- they only care about the $profit$ they can rip out of a chaotic catastrophe.