January 28, 2004

'Illegal': Slur or accurate label?

This moderately balanced AJC article looks at both sides of the oldspeak/newspeak language wars: is it "illegal aliens" or "undocumented immigrants?"

Unfortunately, the author doesn't look at the law. The United States Code - the law of the land - uses the term "illegal aliens." For instance, see "Authorizing State and local law enforcement officials to arrest and detain certain illegal aliens"

It's interesting to analyze news reports' use of these terms. As I previously discussed, a San Jose Mercury News story got almost everything wrong.

And, here's a correction of an Arizona Republic story.

I think if you keep hammering this point about language home, and keep showing the statements of the "leaders" quoted in the article for what they are, eventually it will sink in.

Posted to Immigration2003 at January 28, 2004 09:07 PM

Comments

This is a lovely story, Its, Friday night, I�m sitting in my �restrictionist rightist stasis� chamber just south of San Francisco. I scan the TV and whiz past Larry King and find myself watching the two talking heads: Sean Hannity and Larry Coombs. The guest for the evening is one Mr. Gerardo (a Hispanic) San Francisco member of the Board of Supervisors.

The topic for discussion from Mr. Gerardo is: henceforth it will be politically incorrect to refer to the illegal immigrant population (i.e the illegal criminals, illegal aliens ) in any other frame of reference than referring to them as � undocumented workers�. To refer to them as illegal immigrants will henceforth be the equivalency of using the �N� word.

Who can believe this garbage.

This is an excellent example of how far liberals and their liberal agenda have gone to mislead their fellow Americans.

Posted by: Catch 22 at January 30, 2004 09:16 PM