After reading Peter Strozniak's article, Outreach Efforts Continue Despite Immigration Reform Stall, (CU Times, Oct. 1, 2014), I thought for a moment that I must have read about some of our politicians who would gladly sell their country in return for votes and that infamous American form of bribe known as a "campaign contribution."
Then reality quickly set in; the author was in effect advocating that credit unions facilitate illegal migration into the United States.
One Webster definition of immigrant is "a person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence." That definition makes good sense. The immigrant, as many of our forefathers and mothers did, comes to this country expecting to stay permanently. That definition, however, precludes the use of the term immigrant being applied to so-called undocumented immigrants. Since those aliens are here illegally, they cannot take up residence, for one cannot be both resident, which implies a legal status, and illegal.
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