"Legislators, politicians, policy wonks & media outlets who want the law changed use words that obfuscate to shape the ground the way they want it.
That begs the question: why don’t you just change the law?
The answer is obvious: they don’t have the support of the people.
So this is an end-run around congress.
Which is an end-run around the citizen’s of this nation who still believe in nations & sovereignty.
Two important questions follow:
- Why?
- To what end?
The borders of this country are like a femoral artery that has been severed by our own hands.
America as a nation is bleeding out while leaders on both sides stand and watch, yelling for more life rafts and life jackets….never doing a thing to stop the bleeding."
- Lara Logan
Agreed
I prefer Illegal Alien… But maybe I should change now that Alien declass may be on deck.
Illegal Alien is the correct legal term
Wetback was good enough for Dwight David Eisenhower.
this is correct.
Yes immigrant implies “migrating in/ moving in.” Alien implies foreigner. Illegal Alien is better word for them.
Control the language and you control the narrative.
Change the language and you can change laws without legislation.
Jordan Peterson also says,
'Tyrants control what you say; in order to control how you think.'
They use…
“Abortion” (to abort) instead of kill/murder.
“Fetus” instead of baby, to make it seem less human.
“Gender affirming” when it’s the exact opposite of affirming; it’s denying the gender, and attempting to change it.
Don’t even get me started on the asinine they/them non-gendered pronouns. Anyone using plural pronouns for a singular person needs to stop being an accomplice to [their] attempt at hijacking language to suit their non-gendered agenda.
Nobody should ever use the term “MAP” (Minor Attracted Person) that they’re pushing to try and decrease the stigma of pedophilia.
Yes, I still use the correct term “illegal alien” for people who have illegally entered the country.
You are threatening "democracy" 😂
USFS calls them “International Travelers”. I shit you not.
Invader**
There you go.
Illegal alien is more accurate
Like using the term 'vaccine'. It's a flu shot. Doesn't stop you from getting it, doesn't stop you from giving it...but you might not get as sick if you get the shot.
Called a flu shot....
further under the EAU usage, it's still not technically deemed a vaccine. Media should have been admonished for using the term vaccine. But that was a plan of lies....it's a darn flu shot and no one should be forced,,,when it's not a vaccine to stop anything.
Migrant is an accurate term IMHO.
"Illegal immigrant" is an oxymoron.
Immigration is a LEGAL process. If someone is an immigrant, they're legal. Until you go through that legal process, if you're without a certain ID that entitles you to be in the country, you're a migrant, illegal alien, or trespasser.
Exactly illegals + terrorists. That is what they are too
I just call them illegals. Everyone knows what I'm talking about.
Amen! THOSE PEOPLE ARE ILLEGAL ALIENS!
I don’t think that anyone whose family has emigrated to the United States, become naturalized citizens, and contributed to the betterment of the country would ever understand that.
Stay the fuck out, ILLEGAL ALIENS. If you want to be in America, come in legally, and act like you WANT to be here, and not be on the fucking take like so many non-contributing, useless ILLEGAL ALIENS I’ve witnessed here.
Yep and if one is willing to break that law, what other laws are they willing to break?? They are lawbreakers. If someone wants to come, by all means do so, legally, and hardly anyone will have issues with that.
The reason is because labor you are underpaying for is a hard thing to let go of? Illegal migrants are great for a capitalist system like ours, because they allow corporations to increase margins and thus their production of capital by paying under market price for labor. Meanwhile, in states with sales tax (most states), these same illegal migrants pay into the tax pot the rest of us benefit from with every purchase they make. To say nothing of helping to pay property taxes via paying rent on apartments, etc.
Illegal migrants only represent a drain on the system if you take a narrow view on some portions of the governmental budget. For corporations, illegal migrants are great. If you'll allow me to extend the metaphor, the monetary incentive to "stop the bleeding" might be there for the paramedics with the ability to use gauze and tourniquets, but not for the people who produce, supply, and ultimately fund the paramedics.
You see, the paramedics are the politicians/government employees in this metaphor
Maybe the metaphor thing was a mistake
Current estimate of their tax base covers less then 18% of taxpayer cost leaving a tab of approx 151 billion a year for legal residents to pay. Citizens are going to bleed out soon!
That's okay, though, because they are creating capital. We have more capital than ever!