Brownwood & Honesty
Americans need to be honest with themselves
By Ruben Navarrette
March 5, 2005
Some people wonder whether Americans have the will to tackle the problem of illegal immigration. But the real question is whether they have the intellectual honesty to tackle it in a way that will do any good.
It doesn't always seem as if they do. For starters, there's the way in which many Americans lazily fall back on that one word - illegal - in an attempt to short-circuit the debate. I see it in my e-mail. After I've written a column that anti-immigrant hard-liners think is soft on illegals, a reader will write in and ask, rhetorically: ''What part of 'illegal' don't you understand?''
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