Dr. Jessie Virga

Political affiliation is not a moral diagnosis. Being right leaning does not make someone immoral. Being left leaning does not make someone virtuous.

Understanding who is in the country without legal status requires abandoning caricatures in favor of demographic reality. The unauthorized population is large, heterogeneous, and deeply embedded in the national economy. It is the predictable outcome of a system that tolerates prolonged unlawful presence while failing to align legal pathways, enforcement capacity, and labor demand.

What we now call mob mentality or groupthink feels like a modern label for something Jung was already describing decades ago. When individuals become part of a group, something changes. Intellectual rigor declines. Moral restraint weakens. People say and do things they would never do alone.