April 19, 2013 --

The paper's lead editorial, April 1 looks forward to the time "-- a decade or less --" when "the 11 million unauthorized immigrants" will gain U.S. citizenship.

LPR clicksters should be aware that an editorial in The New York Times, June 14, 1939 declared over the time of "mass migration" to the U.S. The U.S. population in 1939, about 130 million, was some 200 million less than today's U.S. population, but then in June 1939, the people really needing to get entry to America were Jews, fleeing Hitler.

The Tmes editorial, June 14, 1939, was the paper's third and final comment on the plight of the 900 Jews trying to flee Hitler, on board the Hamburg-America liner "St. Louis", returning to Europe after being denied entry to Cuba and ignored by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

(Note that the Times apparently deems it unacceptable, today, to use the term "illegal immigrants." LPR wonders if The New York Times would object if people waiting years at U.S. consulates for permission to come to the United States were called "fools.")