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notice the language
I doubt I would ever stand behind Bill O'Reilly on any point, but.... isn't a person who has entered this country illegally already guilty of commiting a crime? Okay, so it's not manslaughter, but still, and whatever the motivation, it is a deliberate criminal act.
I was glad to see that Salon, in its subhead to this article, used the phrase "illegal aliens" instead of the current morph, "illegal immigrants." It's a very clear distinction, one which the immigrants rights proponents need to embrace. I have nothing against immigrants. All but one of my grandparents were immigrants. They committed no crimes, so far as I know, even when they were jumping through the quite numerous hoops that were then a part of the legal immigration process.