Ruben Navarrette

From the commentary, "I want a national consensus around the idea that ICE isn't law enforcement. They're charged with enforcing immigration law. ... They're glorified process servers — with guns.

From the commentary, "The South Carolinian left behind plenty of material to argue over in a complicated life that was well lived."

From the commentary, "Americans read fewer books than we used to, and the books that we do read are shorter. ... And instead of bucking this trend, public schools have caved in and assigned fewer books."

Anyone who has written about immigration for more than 35 years, and who has the scars to prove it, has earned the right to say: “I told you so.”

From the commentary, "Every day, more and more of that wrongdoing is in plain view. And, as Americans, we can't afford to look away."

From the commentary, "Our nation's first president was so worried about the dangers of political parties getting too strong that he doesn't seem to have considered how perilous things can get when they become too weak."

SAN DIEGO — As spelled out by former President Thomas Jefferson in our republic, all men are created equal. All states, not so much.

SAN DIEGO — Who's afraid of the big, bad word? If that word happens to be "socialist" or "socialism," the answer seems to be fewer and fewer Americans.

From the commentary, "When they're standing in the winner's circle (in November), a lot of Democrats are going to realize they were worried for no reason" about DSAs.

SAN DIEGO — President Donald Trump didn't want to be compared to one failed president, and so he wound up following in the footsteps of another.