One issue that has consumed much of the 2016 cycle’s political oxygen is immigration, on which the Republican nominee has issued a series of controversial statements and proposals — and the Democratic nominee has vowed to go even further than President Obama in pursuing constitutionally-dubious executive actions if Congress fails to bend to her will. I asked Johnson about his immigration policies from the perspective of a border state governor (:30), and pressed him on his previously-stated support for Obama’s unilateral executive amnesty (6:45). Along the way, we also sparred over the term “illegal immigrant,” to which Johnson strenuously objected (4:20) as “incendiary” and offensive…
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