The good old LA Times — calling them “undocumented immigrants.”
This may sound harsh, but if I had my way, Henry Cejudo wouldn’t even be an American citizen. Nothing against the kid, but his parents made the wrong decision to come here illegally, and our government is also wrong for declaring that a child born to an illegal alien is an automatic US citizen. The offspring should also be an illegal alien, in my view. The 14th Amendment is not meant to cover this sort of thing. It was supposed to cover former slaves born in the US — NOT to cover people breaking into this country and then procreating so that their offspring are citizens and the parents get the welfare benefits. That system is messed up.
This is not the embodiment of the American Dream as I see it. OK, good for the kid for winning a gold medal, congrats and all of that, and he is evidently proud of his acquired country. But illegal aliens do not represent the American Dream, no matter how much the LA Times tries to sugarcoat it with glowing references and innocuous euphemisms.
Well, to be more charitable, and correct, he inherits his parents nationality, so it's not like he's stateless, as is sometimes implied in an attempt to generate sympathy for his "plight".
And he seems OK with being Mexican, at least ethnically. If he had grown up there it might be different; obviously his mother thought so - she did anything to keep from going home.