Posted on 06/09/2025 6:48:21 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
"Illegal Alien" is a correct legal term which is used in official federal government documents. "Undocumented Immigrants" or "Undocumented Migrant" or "Undocumented Worker" are INCORRECT nonsense terms used by leftists to make it seem that Illegal Aliens are somehow neither illegal nor alien. It is like legitimizing Drug Dealers by calling them "Unlicensed Pharmacists." Anybody in the media using the "Undocumented" terminology as Margaret Brennan did on "Face The Nation" on Sunday while interviewing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is publicly subscribing to the extreme leftist ideology. Noem did not correct Brennan on her incorrect leftist terminology but a Master Class on correcting such leftist terminology was recently conducted by the White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller when he corrected CNN's Pam Brown on this matter which really irked her. In addition, when all the leftist media types around you are using the phony "Undocumented" term, one should INSIST on continuing to use the correct term "Illegal Alien" as Scott Jennings did during a CNN roundtable discussion.
I better dig out my “I Don’t Care Margaret!” T-shirt.
PING!
What a moron. Margaret, all you have to do is read the daily talking points. Stay on script. Sheesh
Wordsmithing preys on those that attended public schools in America. It’s an insideous weapon that goes largely unchecked and without notice.
I remember when the 80’s song “Illegal Alien” by Phil Collins/Genisis was a big hit.
https://youtu.be/aqQv3qef21A?si=-8kgO7Kthf2AtHYq
There has been little change in views of deporting “immigrants who are living in the United States illegally,” which, in a half sample of respondents, is favored by 66% and opposed by 34%. From February 2024 through May 2025, in eight of nine national Marquette Law Poll surveys, 60% or more have favored such deportations, with one poll finding support at 55%.
Yes, Margaret truly is braindead.
About 30 years ago I read that the term “undocumented worker” was a phrase dreamed up by a Mexican Communist writer who said he wanted to de-alienate Mexican illegals in the eyes of Americans.
After much searching recently - and even using AI - I can’t find that clowns name. But the term is consistent with Mexican “logic”: to them, citizenship in a nation is merely a matter of “having your papers”. Abstract concepts like borders (imaginary lines on a map) and citizenship (a term applied to members of a group defined by familial or legal bonds) are simply beyond them...except when it comes to themselves. “Mi Raza”, for example.
By its use, the term “undocumented” has been successful in diminishing US citizenship and immigration laws to be almost meaningless, as in “oops! I guess I forgot to be documented when I barged the border last week!”. To them, nothing means anything, rules/laws/records/organization are all inconsequential. Anarchy is a polite word for it that they don’t get either.
Never stop using the term Illegal Alien: it defines them perfectly. Someone who is alien to our polity and culture, and is in our territory against our will.
“Illegal Alien” was used without controversy until sometime in the 90s. Then suddenly it became taboo as the leftists tried to replace it with phony “Undocumented” terms that attempted to legitimize the illegals as if all that stood between the illegal aliens and full citizenship was simply a matter of “documents.”
All true, but WHY did the term chance??? Does anyone here know?
Putting lipstick on a pig. Another one is “protests” when they are “riots”.
It’s no fun.
because the left wanted it changed and the sheeple bleated ...
Regards,
Actually, I hope they DO use the term “undocumented immigrant” while showing these scumbag a-hole Mexican flag waving narcissist criminal pryros ripping up the streets of LA (and elsewhere). Most people don’t seem to understand that a futile attempt to rebrand a human toilet-turd by calling it a “Snickers”, will only ruin the branding of the Snickers!
(It’s no fun.)
That’s right 👍
I propose we change the official terminology from “illegal immigrant” to “lawless invader”. Or perhaps “rapacious colonizer”.
Send an “undocumented” MS13 to her house with a machete.
"Undocumented Immigrant" is an Orwellian term that makes it seem like the only issue with the massive influx of Third World people into the US is some bureaucrat forgetting to fill out or sign a form. And of course, calling them illegal invaders runs counter to the leftist mantra of "no person is illegal".
I often point out to open borders enthusiasts that there are well over 7 billion people living outside of the US. Conservatively, US levels of poverty would be affluence for about half of them. Is it their belief that we should open our borders to such people, all 3.5 billion (or more of them)?
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