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UC-Berkeley Students Ban Use of ‘Illegal Immigrant’
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Posted on 11/09/2013 11:00:53 AM PST by Sub-Driver

November 8, 2013 12:38 PM UC-Berkeley Students Ban Use of 'Illegal Immigrant' By Andrew Johnson

The University of California–Berkeley student government unanimously passed a resolution banning the term “illegal immigrant” from the body’s official discourse. The resolution is the second such measure to be passed since former Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano took over as president of the UC system.

The Berkeley student government showed its support for the “drop the I-word” campaign, deeming the term “racially charged,” according to the College Fix. “The ‘I’ word is legally inaccurate since being out of status is a civil rather than criminal infraction,” the resolution reads.

Napolitano’s arrival to the UC system has been met with resistance from some students, professors, and other employees because of her record on detention and deportation of undocumented immigrants. For example, at the Board of Regents’ approval vote in July, protesters stormed the room shouting ”Shame!” resulting in arrests. In its resolution, the Berkeley student government claimed students live in fear of Napolitano.

The resolution offers alternative terms in place of the rejected term so as to not “dehumanize people,” such as “undocumented,” “immigrants without papers,” “foreign nationals,” or “immigrants seeking status.”

The one student who abstained from the 18–0 vote to pass the resolution said he felt it didn’t accomplish anything substantive. Additionally, he said his fellow members showed disrespect when he raised some objections to the resolution by turning their backs to him as he spoke.

Via College Fix.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: aliens; berkeley; illegalimmigrants
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Makes me feel better already.........
1 posted on 11/09/2013 11:00:53 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

. . . and thereby ban precision in language.


2 posted on 11/09/2013 11:01:51 AM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: Sub-Driver

Right. Call them dehumanized aliens.


3 posted on 11/09/2013 11:03:41 AM PST by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: Sub-Driver

“Makes me feel better already...”

Really; I’m sure they all slept a little better knowing they’d done their part to save the world and fight injustice.


4 posted on 11/09/2013 11:05:03 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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as go language so goes perception...

"out of status"? now THERES a definition for ya!

is BARRY OUT OF STATUS???


5 posted on 11/09/2013 11:05:03 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
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To: JohnBrowdie

This is what political correctness does. It bans certain language so as to further an agenda.

These people are illegal. We can discuss changing their legal status, but, the fact remains they are here illegally. We can’t state such a fact, apparently.

The term “illegal alien” was banned by the liberals years ago, because they felt that “alien” was a pejorative term.


6 posted on 11/09/2013 11:05:06 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Sub-Driver

“The ‘I’ word “ ?

Really?


7 posted on 11/09/2013 11:05:18 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: JohnBrowdie

A more precise term is “criminal alien”. I don’t suppose they’d like that one either though.


8 posted on 11/09/2013 11:06:17 AM PST by Bob
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I would be happier with, “that dude on the bus being sent back to tijuana”.


9 posted on 11/09/2013 11:07:15 AM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: Sub-Driver

I had at least one Illegal Alien in my family. One stowed away in a boat in 1795 at age 11 and came to the colonies.


10 posted on 11/09/2013 11:08:21 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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“The ‘I’ word is legally inaccurate since being out of status is a civil rather than criminal infraction,” the resolution reads.

OK, I'll accept that. Let's call them "uncivil aliens", then. Emphasis on "alien", of course.

11 posted on 11/09/2013 11:11:54 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: mountainlion

There now called FUTURE DEMOCRATS. The name was changed to protect the guilty.


12 posted on 11/09/2013 11:12:36 AM PST by spawn44 (MOO)
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To: Sub-Driver
After all the years of protesting the VN War, I wondered what the college-scumbags were going to do with all their free time.
Ironic that: Now, fifty years later they ignore the 1st Amendment and that's considered progress.
13 posted on 11/09/2013 11:13:10 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Sub-Driver

Just call yourselves Mexicans already and be done with it !


14 posted on 11/09/2013 11:15:02 AM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Sub-Driver

So we’re back to “wetback”?


15 posted on 11/09/2013 11:16:16 AM PST by Gator113 ( Cruz, Palin and Lee speak for me, most everyone else is just noise.)
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in other news, UCB students ban critical thinking...
16 posted on 11/09/2013 11:16:19 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Bob

I prefer the term “invading foreign force” or “foreign invaders”


17 posted on 11/09/2013 11:20:29 AM PST by Jim Hill
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To: Sub-Driver
Back in the day the Border Patrol called them Tonks.

Because that is the sound that a flash light make when you smack then over the head.

18 posted on 11/09/2013 11:21:26 AM PST by usurper (Liberals GET OFF MY LAWN)
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To: Sub-Driver

They are not immigrants, they are aliens. Illegal ones at that.


19 posted on 11/09/2013 11:30:17 AM PST by kaehurowing
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

The article is WRONG! Violating U.S. immigration laws is a criminal offense.


20 posted on 11/09/2013 11:33:17 AM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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