In the war of words the immigration reform debate has degenerated into lately, a few terms have taken on lightning-bolt authority -- a kind of "we know which side you are on" usage.
Do you say "illegal alien" or "undocumented worker"? "Path to earned citizenship" or "amnesty"? A favorite phrase, increasingly heard in dialogues both heated and mild, is "rule of law." Now, this principle has an important place historically in legal and political theory, but you wouldn't know it listening to the patriots fulminating against illegal immigrants. To them, "rule of law" is a way simply to call out anyone who sees shades of gray in the immigration issue. Those who invoke the term are beholden to a hard and fast view that one group is entirely good -- legal immigrants -- and another is entirely bad -- illegal immigrants.
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