A fiscal year 2013 budget brief released by Homeland Security today has some details on the Obama administration’s immigration enforcement priorities, and one of the losers is the federal-local partnership known as 287(g).

IN BOTH OF THIS month’s Republican presidential debates, Rep. Michele Bachmann hailed what she evidently believes was the golden age of American immigration when she said the “immigration law worked beautifully.” Ms. Bachmann’s nostalgia is touching but misplaced.