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'Illegal': Slur or accurate label?
Atlanta Journal Constitution ^
| 1/28/04
| Rick Badie
Posted on 01/28/2004 7:35:34 PM PST by NortNork
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To: NortNork
If that's the case then I'll bet ya "wetback" really pizzes him off.
To: NortNork
"But Mexicans who make illegal border crossings for job-rich cities like Atlanta "have no choice" but to break the law" HUH? Does this mean that Vincente is actually driving them to the border and forcing them at gunpoint to cross and then making sure they can't turn back. Give me a break! How stupid does this bimbo think we are?
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posted on
01/28/2004 8:05:18 PM PST
by
sweetliberty
("Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.")
To: NortNork
I thought that we are all supposed to call 'em
undocumented now...
How long before we gots to start calling 'em something else? What's the next term, non-notaried or something? I reckon damp-posteriored is out...
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posted on
01/28/2004 8:05:25 PM PST
by
maxwell
(Well I'm sure I'd feel much worse if I weren't under such heavy sedation...)
To: NortNork
But Mexicans who make illegal border crossings for job-rich cities like Atlanta "have no choice" but to break the law, said Victoria Chacon, founder and president of the South East Hispanic Media Association. ...
"I don't think it's illegal to come here, work hard, and live in peace," she said. "They come for their family, risk their lives to find a better lifestyle."
Why don't they consider the "choice" of staying in their country and trying to improve the conditions there?
What is fundamentally wrong with Mexico that staying and improving the conditions there is not considered a more moral choice?
-PJ
To: NortNork
""I don't think it's illegal to come here, work hard, and live in peace," she said" This b***h isn't terribly literate is she? Hello!!! Illegal means unlawful which means it is against the law as the law is written....and guess what. Just because YOU don't think it's illegal doesn't make it any more legal. Bless your heart, you are dumber than a box of rocks aren't you?
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posted on
01/28/2004 8:10:06 PM PST
by
sweetliberty
("Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.")
To: NortNork
ILLEGAL ALIEN.
To: Rightwing Conspiratr1
Who is this "we"? Speak for yourself.
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posted on
01/28/2004 8:13:00 PM PST
by
TXnMA
(No Longer!!! -- and glad to be back home (and warm) in God's Country!!)
To: NortNork
How about 'law breaking criminal foreigners?'
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posted on
01/28/2004 8:15:05 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(Regime change in the courts. Impeach activist judges!)
To: NortNork
"The term 'illegal alien' works to discredit the honest and thoughtful discussion that needs to take place in reforming immigration policy." Uhhh, no, idiot, it identifies them as precisely what they are....aliens (that means: owing political allegiance to another country or government; foreign) and they are illegal (reiterating: not lawful). It's called correct use of the language (which in America is English, btw). You should try it sometime. Simplifies things immensely when you use the correct terminology in commucications.
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posted on
01/28/2004 8:15:54 PM PST
by
sweetliberty
("Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.")
To: gubamyster; Dutchy; sarcasm; RaceBannon
Just when you think you've read it all.
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posted on
01/28/2004 8:17:20 PM PST
by
StarFan
To: NortNork
I don't think it's illegal to come here, work hard, and live in peace It is if you come here illegally.
To: NortNork
How about "criminals without borders"?
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posted on
01/28/2004 8:28:36 PM PST
by
Henchman
(I Hench, therefore I am!)
To: NortNork
They don't like being called "illegal immigrants"? Oh, poor babies. How about I call them CRIMINAL INVADERS?! Maybe they'll like that better.
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posted on
01/28/2004 8:35:22 PM PST
by
Nea Wood
(Democrats - they throw OUR money at THEIR problems.)
To: Bubba_Leroy
They are not American so they are foreign. They are not law biding citizens, they are criminals breaks the laws of the land. Hence they are foreign criminals.
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posted on
01/28/2004 8:36:28 PM PST
by
Kozy
(Calling Al Gore)
To: NortNork
To: Henchman
Personally, my current favorite is "soggy dorsaled", however, I am willing to accept "criminal migrant".
To: NortNork
If people are offended by the term 'illegal', I am willing to start using "filthy criminal" instead.
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posted on
01/28/2004 8:39:34 PM PST
by
Sloth
(Why fight foreign enemies if we are surrendering to the domestic ones?)
To: NortNork
How about CRIMINAL INVADERS?
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posted on
01/28/2004 8:43:30 PM PST
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(A little knowledge is dangerous.-- I live dangerously::))
To: antiantiamericans
"Criminal Migrant" is excellent and close, but what if they stay in one place? Ciminally unemplyed?
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posted on
01/28/2004 8:49:07 PM PST
by
Henchman
(I Hench, therefore I am!)
To: NortNork
"Many Latinos, he said, find it offensive."
So?
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posted on
01/28/2004 8:53:29 PM PST
by
El Gran Salseron
(It translates as the Great, Big Dancer, nothing more. :-))
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