In fact, running was what she mostly did — away from the issue. She couldn’t decide whether she was for or against driver’s licenses for undocumented aliens — a hot issue at the time.

She opposed guest-worker programs supported by the Bush administration in 2007, which ultimately doomed comprehensive reform from being brought to the Senate floor for a vote.

Now she’s decided to jump all in, taking the most aggressive stand of any candidate running. Pardon me for thinking she is every bit as cynical as those on the right whose stance caters to the anti-immigrant minority in the GOP.

Immigration reform shouldn’t be a partisan wedge issue; it ought to be a policy priority for candidates in both parties.