I sent a letter to Time about Michael Kinsley's column in the December 17th edition, "Kidding Ourselves About Immigration". Several letters about that column appear in the December 31st edition, not including mine. For the record, here it is.
Michael Kinsley fails to distinguish between two kinds of illegal immigrants: Those who entered the country legally but overstayed their visa, hence becoming illegal, and those who entered without papers and hence were illegal from the moment they set foot inside the country. The former group is no doubt heterogeneous and no doubt deserving of some consideration. As for the latter group, why should proximity to the U.S. border be a valid reason, in and of itself, for allowing such people to "jump the line", no matter how much "gumption" they show, to use Kinsley's term.
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