Donald Trump’s immigration program is realistic and sensible, and it makes him a serious presidential candidate. Trump’s political appeal is to that segment of the American electorate that believes it is being lied to by the political establishment. The establishment and its candidates are telling us that if some immigration is good, then more immigration is always better, even though large numbers of American workers are feeling trapped by stagnant wages and job insecurity, if they have a job at all. “Trump’s attention-getting hyperbole characterizing illegal Mexican immigrants as murderers and rapists taps into the concerns of many Americans about accelerating immigration.” Economists puzzle over why wages are stagnant even as the economy expands, corporate profits increase, and the stock market regularly hits new highs. Many Americans are concluding that corporate profits and the stock market are high because wages are stagnant, the result of a labor surplus that produces job insecurity. Further, in the compelling new book Rise of the Robots by Silicon Valley futurist Martin Ford, the author warns us that the accelerating …