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Immigration Semantics

by Alan Reynolds

Rational discussion of the Senate immigration bill is being stifled and befuddled by a few misused words and phrases that generate irrational anger and very little understanding.

The simple dichotomy between legal and illegal immigrants, for example, ignores the 175 million foreigners who arrived in the United States in 2005 as legal nonimmigrants — tourists, business travelers, students and temporary workers. There were 4.7 million people who came here to conduct busine ...

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