What is the Difference?

What is the difference between "legal" and "illegal" immigration?

It appears, not much.

An investigation of so-called "legal" immigration by the Portland Press Herald uncovers strange happenings, rampant deception, irregularities, fraud, and a federal bureaucracy most notable for looking the other way.

So why is the "coyote" who leads immigrant workers across a southern dessert vilified and hunted down, while businessmen with fine suits, making respectable salaries, and with seemingly unlimited expense accounts, accomplishing essentially the same thing by similarly devious means, are ignored by the government?

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