Let’s say you were kicked out of a store for doing something they found disruptive and told you were no longer allowed to shop there. If you were to go back you could rightfully be charged with criminal trespassing.
Or if you were to take a shortcut through someone’s apple orchard on your way to work every day and the owner told you to stop doing that and you did it again, same thing.
That’s trespassing. Tres-PASSING (I think the word literally means “passing over” or “passing through.”) You have every right to keep people from coming onto your property for ANY reason and if they refuse to comply you can get the law involved.
But it seems like an entirely different thing if someone intended to come into your store and LIVE there, or to straight up pitch a tent on your apple orchard and LIVE there.
There’s the word “squatting” but that generally applies only to unused habitable property spurred by an emergency of some kind (i.e. if your family is about to freeze to death and you have nowhere else to go and you spot a half filled apartment building and you camp inside until the weather improves, etc.) so squatting isn’t really strong enough of a term either.
And since squatting is more a term used to describe an act born of desperation then “trespassing with intent to squat” doesn’t really capture the essence of this crime either.
Breaking and entering is a crime but when you think of someone breaking and entering you generally assume it’s for a temporary reason as well—usually for stealing or squatting.
So when you enter another country without that country’s permission for the intent of actually living there, the word “immigration” as part of the term really tugs at the wrong strings somehow. “Illegal immigration” just doesn’t carry enough rhetorical weight to it somehow.
We need a term that really hits at the heart of this crime that can’t easily be argued with that has some heft but doesn’t rise to the level of hyperbole in the mind of the average citizen. It needs to be accurate, pejorative in nature to reflect the criminal element of it, but without sounding unreasonably alarmist.
As I brainstorm myself I’d welcome any ideas you might have.
For example: let’s say we charged them with “invasion.” When you think of an invasion what comes to mind? An individual or family or small group? No. So just charging them with “invasion” might rise to the level of hyperbole and miss the mark for the average person (even though thats what it is). But there’s got to be something. I think maybe it should include a word that specifies the crossing of a legally recognized national border.
I think invader works just fine.
I actually edited my post for that one before I saw this comment. While I feel it’s accurate, I think it’s too easily dismissed as hyperbolic.
Also, not to nitpick, but I’m looking for a term that represents the crime or charge itself, not the label we attribute to the person who commits said crime. The personal labels are problematic in ways the charge itself wouldn’t be.
I'm not concerned with how someone may misconstrue the term. I'm simply interested in accuracy, and invader is accurate, imo.
Ok then don't bother replying to the post because I specifically asked for ideas that would be accurate and yet hopefully not rise to the level of hyperbole in the minds of those who don't already think like us. If you don't care about that standard then don't participate, I don't care. As I said, I agree that "invasion" is accurate to a degree, but I don't think it passes the test I'm proposing here. (This is my alt account by the way if you can't tell from my usernames)
That specificity is your own, personal subjective opinion.
Not everyone shares your opinion -- nor cares if some dumbass' feelings are hurt.
It's not a matter of opinion that THAT is what I asked for help with in this post. It's right there in black and white. And I haven't expressed any concern that some dumbass's feelings might be hurt, dumbass. I'm trying to come up with a term that will feel COMPELLING and ACCURATE to people who don't ALREADY see the issue as you and I do. You may not care whether you're persuasive or not to people who don't already see the world the way you do, but I happen to find it quite satisfying, and my post made that clear, so you chiming in is really just fucking annoying.
Fucking retard.
Intruders? Thieves?
Intruder?
I call them “invaders.” I say it whenever it comes up in conversation. It always causes a wide eyed, wtf look but no disagreement.
I do too
Invader. That's what they are.
Invasion. Insurrection. Enemies of the State. Civilization destroyers.
Ok so you really didn't pay full attention to the assignment did you.
Invasion.
INVASION.
Like "home invasion."
UN soldiers
It’s been called LaInvasora forever. Radio stations have blasted the INVASION (for reclamation of lands rightfully theirs?) since at least the mid 80’s.
In France, military clashed, but the resistance met many of the invaders “privately”.
Guerilla tactics gonna be necessary? Hope not, but if the size of the firearm I watched a guy carry in his house today is any indication, I’d say the Invaders are walking into a hornet’s nest.
Illegal Aliens.
Illegally entering an area without consent and with possibly violent intent could be called "rape." Call them "boundary rapists," maybe?
I’m starting to wonder if there was a point to any of the qualifiers I put in this post. Missing the point entirely but whatever.
Invaders with intent to occupy. Not short enough. Occupation invader? Something along that line.
Criminal prospecting.
Invasion/ occupation
It's called criminal invasion.
What if they had to like swim through a river and then we could make fun of them for that like bruh why your clothes still damp? And also if they eat a lot of a certain type of food like rice or something we should be like fucking ricers learn to speak English you've been here twenty years wtf
Ive got it for you. You charge them with entering illegally but you dont put them in jail. You tell them they are now banned from the US forever. Then you have a chip planted in their brain so there is no way they can sneak across the border. Problem solved.
Just banning them for life will stop them from coming unless they are coming for illegal purpose.
Unknown Foreign Intruder (UFI)
"Oh, so like a ufo, but a person?"
Could be unidentified, unrestricted, uncontrolled, etc. Something that notes the chaotic and unpredictable nature of the intrusion.
Compare it to our legal immigration system, which will likely collapse if the UFI's don't stop. Compare it to the fact that you can't just take a boat to Iceland and get free room and board because you're afraid of the roving bands of rioters in your blue state city.
Remind people it makes the US look like a 2nd world country at best, a pseudo-lawless borderland with an asterisk by its name on the map where you're not quite sure if you have neighbors or unvetted potential hostile combatants.
Not counting the military plants by the globalists, most are people coming for a better paying job. They are uneducated dirt poor people. Its hard to come up with a term that everyone will understand.
Corporations LOVE the cheap labor and a term showing that would be great!
I use the term as squatters. It's commonly referred to as theft if you're squatting at someone's rental