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About this episode

Does illegal describe or define people? Should the press 'drop the I word' as some activists have demanded? ;In this segment for Independent Sources, I trace the evolution of the term 'illegal' to describe immigrants. Here's a start: the term wasn't born here and it wasn't created to define immigration from the U.S.-Mexico border. And William Safire had some interesting things to say about what we call people.

• Release Date

  Nov 22, 2010

• Runtime

  04:23