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Is ‘Illegal Immigrant’ a Racial Slur?

No, but it is an oxymoron.

You can't be a "illegal" immigrant any more then you can be an "illegal" citizen. Both "citizen" and "immigrant" signify someone with a certain legal standing.

There are a number of words like this which are impossible to modify because they either are or aren't.

You can be an Illegal Alien because Alien is a legally neutral term.

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There are a number of words like this which are impossible to modify because they either are or aren't.

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African American.

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