The Top 15 Immigration Lies
Let's put our cards on the table and have a nice clean game.
January 9, 2011 - by Ruben Navarrette Jr.

The most essential virtue in the immigration debate is also the hardest to come by. It’s not compassion, as they claim on the left. Or toughness, as they insist on the right.

It’s honesty, plain and simple. You can’t fix a broken system without it. And yet, unfortunately, there’s not much of it here. In fact, it’s hard to imagine a policy debate in the United States that is more rife with lies, half-truths, and faulty assumptions.

Here are the top 15 whoppers, David Letterman style:

15) “Illegal immigrants come to the United States for the free stuff (education, health care, welfare).â€