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Today, we are much more rigid about
immigrants. We divide newcomers into two categories: legal or illegal,
good or bad. We hail them as Americans in the making, or brand them as
aliens fit for deportation. That framework has contributed mightily to
our broken immigration system and the long political paralysis over how
to fix it.
We don't need more categories, but we need to
change the way we think about categories. We need to look beyond strict
definitions of legal and illegal. To start, we can recognize the new
birds of passage, those living and thriving in the gray areas. We might
then begin to solve our immigration challenges. [We need to
look beyond strict definitions of legal and illegal.]
"Today, we are much more rigid about
immigrants. We divide newcomers into two categories: legal or illegal,
good or bad."
Huh?
This recounting of American history immediately reminded me of Mr.
Peabody, the dog who took boy Sherman into the Way Back Machine for
cockeyed versions of history on the Rocky and Bullwinkle show [sample].
Only, there's no humor.
I'll guess that Robert Soro learned from a Howard Zinn textbook, and
was beat up during recess as a yoot.
"We don't need more categories" is dead on. Legal and illegal do
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