Almost Half of Latino Voters Find 'Illegal Immigrant' Offensive, Says Poll

Fox News Latino ^ | March 8, 2012 | Carolyn Salazar

[The Unknown Republican]

How people feel about illegal immigration is often conveyed by the word they choose to refer to people who cross the border illegally.

To some, they are undocumented workers. Others call them illegal immigrants. Some call them by more pejorative terms, such as "illegals" or "illegal aliens."

Beyond policy disagreements, the semantics of immigration --and specifically the word used in describing the millions of foreigners who have overstayed their visas or have entered the country illegally-- has become one of the most sensitive and inflammatory aspects of the immigration debate.

Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/03/08/almost-half-latinos-feel-term-illegal-immigrant-is-offensive/?test=latestnews#ixzz1oZPP7H1n

[HiJinx]

That’s okay.
I, too, find them to be offensive.

[HiJinx]

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Hmph...I find 'em offensive, too.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Who cares what illegal aliens think? Its insane to even have a poll on it. Maybe if we offend them enough they will LEAVE!!!

[Altura Ct.]

Almost Half of Latino Voters Find 'Illegal Immigrant' Offensive

I wonder if they find the Hispanic Caucus offensive or How about LaRaza or MEChA? I sure do.

[Petruchio]

Almost Half of Latino Voters Find 'Illegal Immigrant' Offensive

Oh, Boo friken Hoo!

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

Isn’t an immmigrant someone who is here legally?

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

Immmigrant=immigrant.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I never saw anything wrong with WETBACKS!

[Arrowhead1952]

My wife is Hispanic, she is fourth generation American of LEGAL Mexican immigrants, and ALL of her family HATES the term “illegal immigrants!”

As they say, these illegals are not “immigrants,” they are “wetbacks” or “illegal aliens!”

Your wife sounds like our Hispanic neighbor Sandra. She is 4th or 5th generation legal immigrant. She knows very little Spanish and told some illegal workers to get the heck out of our country.

[rmlew]

How long will it take for people to see that Fox News is not conservative, and Fox News Latino is part of the problem?
Instead of Americanizing Latinos this effort validates their Balkanization. And now we aren't supposed to hurt the feelings of criminal invaders because of the cultural feelings of Latinos? WTF? What do Puerto Ricans or Latinos who have been here from decades, if not centuries, have to do with each other? And the various immigrants speak different dialects. As for race, What do Shakira and Carmen Diaz have in common with a Mayan? The very concept of "Latino" and Hispanic as a race with unified ideas is a mortal threat to America.

[stephenjohnbanker]

UWS............Undocumented Welfare Sluts

[Nea Wood]

Fine, then I’ll call them “criminal invaders” instead.

[Lancey Howard]

The term “illegal aliens” is now “pejorative”??

How about “criminal scum”? Does that work?

[longtermmemmory]

latino is just code for west coast.

latino trends to illegal.

Hispanic trends to legal and part of the US melting pot.

[SwinneySwitch]

Pretty good, considering that More than Half are democrats!

Wonder how they feel about OTH Illegals? (Other Than Hispanics)