Second Thoughts: Discussing Journalism: Illegal Immigrants Is it accurate to characterize a person escaping from war as "illegal"? Fleeing from war and political persecution, people often are forced stepping into a sphere of illegality, although European right ensures the protection of asylum seekers by law. Caterina Lobenstein and Piotr Skwiecinski discussed this delicate question last year at the n-ost media conference Moscow.
