President Obama’s immigration demagoguery continued during his speech at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast yesterday. According to the president, his opponents on immigration aren’t driven by economic or security concerns—they’re driven by “fears of change” and discomfort about those who are different:

As it is written in the Book of Deuteronomy, “Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.” To me, that verse is a call to show empathy to our brothers and our sisters; to try and recognize ourselves in one another. And it’s especially important that we try to do that when it comes to immigration—because this is a subject that can expose raw feelings and feed our fears of change. It can be tempting to think that those coming to America today are somehow different from us. And we need to not have amnesia about how we populated this country.

By “recogniz[ing] ourselves in one another” we will ultimately solve the immigration debate in the country, according to Obama. Does he realize this is complete nonsense, or does he actually believe these banalities? Imagine how simple life must seem to him if this is how he really thinks. It would mean that his opponents don’t have actual legitimate arguments—they’re simply bigots afraid of those who are “somehow different from us.” How nice for the president that he’s able to resist the “temptation” to think this way.