[Jaysun]

"'There's no such thing as alien life. . . .' You wouldn't be saying that if you lived here in Arizona."

You have a point, but I was sure you guys had started calling them something different by now:

intruders, invaders, refugees, squatters, wetbacks, greasers, deportees, defectors, boat people, lettuce pickers....

[righttackle44]

". . .but I was sure you guys had started calling them something different by now: . . ."

That's exactly what the lefties want us to do. Start the buddying process by political correctness and dilution of labels. They want these guys known as undocumented workers, Mexican nationals, or a whole lot of other nice-sounging names.

These guys are still illegal aliens, and the human scum who charge them $4,500 to bring them north of the border and leave them to die in the deserts, are still coyotes. Coyotes can eat a whole lot of bad stuff and still live. What begins to happen when you start with the political correctness is to lose, eventually, the reality. For example, twenty-years ago, American Indians started referring to themselves as Native Americans. One day, the United States government has every right to pull the plug on their distinctive tribal sovereignty by saying, "Hey, the treaties were made between the United States and Indian tribes--not Native Americans. You guys defined yourself out of business." Sorry. I didn't mean to lecture. But we're not going to start re-naming them. Otherwise, they'll simply be known as the lost, wandering children of Mexico or some other nonsense.