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(VANITY) Can we pivot and use "Foreign Nationals" Instead of "Illegal Aliens"?
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Posted on 12/15/2016 10:06:53 PM PST by TigerClaws

"Illegal aliens" is now deemed non-PC, insulting, plus (important part) it immediately gives away your political position.

My suggestion is to use "foreign nationals" instead.

1. Foreign. We know what that is. Another country instead of 'alien' - another world. It's not quite as pejorative in tone and there's no stigma attached to it yet by the left.

2. Nationals. They are from another country and owe their allegiance to other nations as they aren't Americans.

In use: "President Trump has called for an audit of the California election. Democrats have suggested the election results were tainted and Trump wants to determine if any foreign nationals voted in our presidential elections and, if so, how many."

"A group of foreign nationals protested that they should be given in-state tuition."

"The mainstream media has kept the number of foreign nationals living among us at 11 million for the last twenty years."

I think it works and always good to engage in linguistic warfare.

I mean, who invited the phrase 'fake news'?


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To: TigerClaws
Permanent Resident Aliens are also Foreign Nationals, but legally present. Illegal alien is the correct term.
41 posted on 12/15/2016 11:33:07 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/illegal-alien

Agrees with you.


42 posted on 12/15/2016 11:41:01 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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To: TigerClaws
Dad burn it, the folks are aliens as described by the U.S. Government, and they came into this country by illegal, sometimes sinister means.

They ARE illegal aliens.
43 posted on 12/15/2016 11:49:43 PM PST by righttackle44 (Leave the bodies as a warning-take scalps.)
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To: All; Myrddin

Myrddin is correct with the semantics. “Illegal Alien” is tried & true, “illegal border jumper” also works for me.


44 posted on 12/15/2016 11:52:39 PM PST by Drago
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To: TigerClaws

uh...NO


45 posted on 12/16/2016 12:29:39 AM PST by stylin19a (obama = Fredo smart)
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To: TigerClaws

Foreign nationals include legal visitors, legal students, and those with a green card.

illegals have not been screened and are breaking the law.


46 posted on 12/16/2016 12:52:22 AM PST by LadyDoc
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To: TigerClaws
THE LAW...

8 U.S. Code § 1101
(3) The term “alien” means any person not a citizen or national of the United States.

Follow the law and call them what they are!

You want to call them something different then change the law.

47 posted on 12/16/2016 1:09:37 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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To: TigerClaws

Permanent Residents who came here legally are Foreign Nationals.

I like illegal aliens; or aliens who are here illegally


48 posted on 12/16/2016 1:45:59 AM PST by Mikey_1962 ("Good people do not need laws, bad people will find a way around them" Plato)
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To: TigerClaws

Since the “illegal” word is so offensive to the little snowflakes, I have switched over to the phrase “unauthorized entry immigrant.” That satisfies the objector’s requirement that critics use a phrase that describes who they are or what they actually did.

Now, all rational people know, that when you enter a place without authority, you have entered it illegally. So it amounts to the same thing except that the lawbreakers and their hyperventilating enablers don’t get their poor little feelings hurt.


49 posted on 12/16/2016 2:03:50 AM PST by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow.)
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To: TigerClaws

Invaders works for me.


50 posted on 12/16/2016 2:33:39 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: TigerClaws

*****”Illegal aliens” is now deemed non-PC, insulting, plus (important part) it immediately gives away your political position.******

Why submit to political correctness? Why should you be timid about your political position? Leftists aren’t.


51 posted on 12/16/2016 2:35:29 AM PST by odawg
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To: TigerClaws
Legal permanent residents are also foreign nationals.

Illegal aliens are illegal aliens. It's a perfectly good term. Use it. Leftists can ESAD.

52 posted on 12/16/2016 2:42:26 AM PST by NorthMountain (Drain the swamp.)
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To: TigerClaws

Illegal aliens works for me. They are not immigrants. I still wonder why conservative talk uses the term undocumented immigrants or some other PC euphemism. Once again the left sets the discussion boundaries. BTW let’s get the drum rolling, no welfare for non-citizens period. All costs associated with a non citizen, such as medical care, are paid by the non citizen’s country of origin. This would save us a bunch.


53 posted on 12/16/2016 3:02:16 AM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: TigerClaws

No


54 posted on 12/16/2016 3:07:17 AM PST by no-to-illegals (If America Cared would a moslem cair?)
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To: TigerClaws

I believe the official term used by the federal government is still illegal alien.


55 posted on 12/16/2016 3:08:31 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: TigerClaws

criminal illegals.


56 posted on 12/16/2016 3:08:44 AM PST by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: TigerClaws

Trespassers.


57 posted on 12/16/2016 3:12:07 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: TigerClaws

What part of ILLEGAL alien don’t the Left and Media get? Oh, yeah, these are Undocumented Voters for Democraps.


58 posted on 12/16/2016 3:48:15 AM PST by MasterGunner01 ( To err is human, to forgive is not our policy. -- SEAL Team SIX:)
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To: TigerClaws
How about adding even more accuracy:

Foreign National Invaders

59 posted on 12/16/2016 3:58:16 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Bingo. Illegal alien is a legal accepted term and foreign national can include vacationers, students and visa holders who are here legally. Lets take back the language instead and educate people on what illegal alien means:

il·le·gal a·li·en
NOUN
US
a foreign national who is living without authorization in a country of which they are not a citizen.
Powered by Oxford Dictionaries · © Oxford University Press · Translation by Bing Translator


60 posted on 12/16/2016 4:04:58 AM PST by bigtoona (Make America Great Again! America First!)
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