Was watching a cable news talkshow the other day and one guy made a remark that struck me...
"He's popular among the millions of people living in this country without the proper documentation."
Nice way, to say "illegally", eh?
I turned to the NFO and said,
"Perhaps I should say, 'he's someone who doesn't have the proper receipts from the Internal Revenue Service, as opposed to 'tax evader.'"
Immigration is obviously a complex issue and there aren't any easy answers. And the war of words is just a part of it. "without proper documentation" sounds more like an administrative error on the part of the authorities than "illegal" which turns the issue on the individual.
What about charging for immigration? (see here and here from 2 Nobel Prize Winners)
As for my less erudite commentary on the subject...
- Punished for Obeying the Law...
- http://jer979.blogspot.com/2004/11/sometimes-we-forget-how-damn-lucky-we.html
- http://jer979.blogspot.com/2004/12/house-of-immigrants.html
- http://jer979.blogspot.com/2006/10/when-to-break-law.html
- http://jer979.blogspot.com/2007/08/another-side-of-immigration-and-social.html
- http://jer979.blogspot.com/2006/08/hispanic-day-2006.html
- http://jer979.blogspot.com/2006/04/immigration-issues.html
- http://jer979.blogspot.com/2007/07/sudanl.html
- http://jer979.blogspot.com/2007/07/movie-review-fast-food-nation.html
- http://jer979.blogspot.com/2007/07/not-racist-it-reality.html
- http://jer979.blogspot.com/2006/10/when-to-break-law.html
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