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Politics : ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION THE FIGHT TO KEEP OUR DEMOCRACY
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To: Tadsamillionaire who wrote (2666)11/19/2007 1:05:24 PM
From: Ann Corrigan   of 3197
 
They're illegal aliens: Mislabeling law breakers

UnionLeader.com, Nov 19, 2007

>REP. DENNIS Kucinich, D-Ohio, got some big applause Thursday night when he challenged CNN's Wolf Blizter's use of the word "illegal" to describe immigrants who snuck into the country without going through the proper legal channels.

"I take issue with your description of people being illegal immigrants. There aren't any illegal human beings; that's number one. Number two, they're undocumented."

This has become a popular refrain on the left. But it's a symantic smokescreen. No one is claiming the people exist illegally. But they did get here illegally, and that's what people like Kucinich want us to forget.

Kucinich's insistence that illegal immigrants be called "undocumented" is a deliberate attempt to make people think that their status is merely the result of some paperwork snafu. But it would be like calling a repeat drunk driver who'd lost his license an "undocumented" driver.

Illegal immigrants aren't breaking the law because they're undocumented. They're undocumented because they broke the law. Changing what we call them won't change that fact. But it will cloud the issue, which is just what people like Kucinich are trying to do.<
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