Susie
11-10-2007, 03:48 AM
Illegal Aliens Defined
By Michael Cutler
Family Security Matters, November 7, 2007
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In considering the first tactic of using false language to obfuscate an issue, I would point to former President Jimmy Carter, who began this process where illegal immigration is concerned. He demanded that (former) INS employees stop using the term illegal alien and replace it with the more genteel (and clearly deceptive) term undocumented worker. The current occupant of the White House, George W. Bush, has offered to 'legalize the immigrants,' a statement that is amazing when you consider that this is the equivalent of offering to 'make water wet.' Immigrants are legal: they have green cards and they are on the path to United States citizenship. They can bring their immediate family members legally to the United States as immigrants in their own right. They can take virtually any job they are qualified to do. How much more legal would the President make them? In point of fact, he was really saying that he wanted to make illegal aliens legal, but apparently understood the reaction to such an offer would have been swift, overwhelming and rancorous.
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http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/wm1685.cfm
By Michael Cutler
Family Security Matters, November 7, 2007
. . .
In considering the first tactic of using false language to obfuscate an issue, I would point to former President Jimmy Carter, who began this process where illegal immigration is concerned. He demanded that (former) INS employees stop using the term illegal alien and replace it with the more genteel (and clearly deceptive) term undocumented worker. The current occupant of the White House, George W. Bush, has offered to 'legalize the immigrants,' a statement that is amazing when you consider that this is the equivalent of offering to 'make water wet.' Immigrants are legal: they have green cards and they are on the path to United States citizenship. They can bring their immediate family members legally to the United States as immigrants in their own right. They can take virtually any job they are qualified to do. How much more legal would the President make them? In point of fact, he was really saying that he wanted to make illegal aliens legal, but apparently understood the reaction to such an offer would have been swift, overwhelming and rancorous.
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http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/wm1685.cfm