The irony is thick: Miller's actual framing of immigration reform, pulled from a Third Way memo, is something Democrats should be running on. "Immigration reform should mean something else entirely: it should mean improvements to our laws and policies to make life better for American citizens." Instead, Dems let Republicans own the language while they fumble around defending immigrant rights in the abstract. Miller laid a trap a decade ago and they're still stuck in it, unable to articulate a version of immigration policy that centers American workers, communities, and the actual substance of reform rather than just defending the status quo or performing righteous opposition. The Third Way memo spells it out: Democrats never escaped because they never tried to reframe the entire conversation.