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Facing up to It in California: We must leap the 'third rail' of illegal immigration.
For the last two decades the issue of massive illegal immigration has been the third rail of California politics. Most state residents -- of all backgrounds -- were against it privately, yet precious few would say so publicly. Who wished to be vilified as a racist -- especially in the lotus-eating years of a booming economy, and a new middle-class lifestyle made possible by the hiring of cheap, undocumented gardeners, housekeepers, and nannies?
A brief example: Recently I gave a small luncheon presentation about some of the issues and paradoxes of illegal immigration in California to a group of congressional staffers in Washington. The first questioner, Federico ...
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