Besides , in more than 20 years of writing about illegal immigrants -- Robert Brown : Those who think ` ` illegal immigrant '' is a crime are wrong . He says that migrants who are n't legal immigrants broke the law to get to the U.S. Navarrette : Migrants are n't criminals and are wrongly blamed for many of America 's problems . Still , he says , it does n't help to gloss over fact that immigration laws were broken .
Robert Brown : Those who think ` ` illegal immigrant '' is a crime are wrong . He says that migrants who are n't legal immigrants broke the law to get to the U.S. Navarrette : Migrants are n't criminals and are wrongly blamed for many of America 's problems . Still , he says , it does n't help to gloss over fact that immigration laws were broken .