Cathy Young: Let Illegal Immigrants Come Out of the Shadows

Amidst predictably partisan
reactions to President Obama’s recent executive order offering five
million illegal immigrants a reprieve from deportation, some
critics have denounced it as a special affront to immigrants who
played by the rules to come to this country. So, as one of those
legal immigrants—her family came to America from the Soviet Union
in 1980—Cathy Young says that illegal immigrants do not offend her.
Like some two-thirds of Americans, she believes that if they have
committed no crimes while living in the United States, they should
be granted the option to stay here legally and, in the President’s
words, “come out of the shadows.”

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