Reply #66: It's like focusing on the illegality of Blacks sitting in at lunch counters in the South. [View All]

[pampango]

While they were indeed breaking the law, progressive focus was on the bigger picture. We didn't call them illegals simply because it was illegal for them to be where they were.

We spend too much of our time here discussing the "illegality" of immigrants rather than the bigger picture of why they come here. Immigration is not the same as civil rights, but in both cases it was and is important to focus on the big picture, not solely on the enforcement of current law.