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Illegal Immigrant: Don't Call Me "Illegal"
Townhall.com ^ | February 13, 2013 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 02/13/2013 12:23:03 PM PST by Kaslin

Back in December, "undocumented Americans" were in the running to become TIME Magazine's "Person of the Year" and just two weeks ago, Democratic Rep. John Conyers referred to illegal immigrants as simply "out of status" Americans. Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill, illegal immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas asked Congress not to call him "illegal."

Jose Antonio Vargas, an illegal immigrant and former reporter, scolded a congressional panel on Wednesday, saying that he should not be called illegal, and saying it is an insult to his family who brought him here.

“When you inaccurately call me illegal, you not only dehumanize me, you’re offending them,” he said. “No human being is illegal.”

Mr. Vargas testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee alongside Chris Crane — a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent and president of the ICE agents’ union — who is unable to arrest him under the administration’s new non-deportation policies.

Mr. Vargas, who “came out” as an illegal immigrant several years ago, delivered an emotional plea for the country to legalize him.

How can Vargas be legalized if he isn't illegal? As a reminder, entering the United States without permission is a crime or in other words is, illegal.

A reminder about US Code-Section 1325- Improper Entry by Alien:

 (a) Improper time or place; avoidance of examination or inspection;
misrepresentation and concealment of facts Any alien who (1) enters or attempts to enter the United States at any time or place other than as designated by immigration officers, or (2) eludes examination or inspection by immigration officers, or (3) attempts to enter or obtains entry to the United States by a willfully false or misleading representation or the willful concealment of a material fact, shall, for the first commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both, and, for a subsequent commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18, or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.

(b) Improper time or place; civil penalties Any alien who is apprehended while entering (or attempting to enter) the United States at a time or place other than as designated by immigration officers shall be subject to a civil penalty



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: aliens; illegals; language
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1 posted on 02/13/2013 12:23:07 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Sorry. If the shoe fit.
If you don’t like illegal alien, how about criminal.


2 posted on 02/13/2013 12:26:41 PM PST by BuffaloJack (Your only guarantee of free speech is the gun you own.)
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To: Kaslin
I'll call you whatever I please, ese.
3 posted on 02/13/2013 12:26:57 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Fear the government that fears your gun.)
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To: Kaslin
Shut the f*** up, you utterly illegal, lawbreaking, scofflaw wetback piece of Mexican vomit.


4 posted on 02/13/2013 12:27:13 PM PST by Lazamataz (Republicans have the same policies as the Democrats, except for the part where they win elections.)
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To: Kaslin
We've heard all this before, only another brother "illegal" can use the "I" word.

Legals are racist when they use the "I" word.

5 posted on 02/13/2013 12:29:24 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Kaslin

Too bad we can’t call him “deported.”


6 posted on 02/13/2013 12:30:52 PM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: Kaslin

OK! You are not an “Illegal Immigrant”, you are a “Foreign Invader”.


7 posted on 02/13/2013 12:31:53 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: TexasCajun

Wouldn’t that be status-ist?


8 posted on 02/13/2013 12:32:12 PM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'll stop being a cynic when the world stops giving me reasons to be cynical.)
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To: Kaslin

Fine, you’re an F’n criminal who along with your anchors takes money out of my pockets which could go to support my family. If I had my way you would be put into bread and water hard labor building a secure wall all along the border; and afterwards chucked over the wall and into your home $h!thole.


9 posted on 02/13/2013 12:32:44 PM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’ll call you whatever I please, Sancho.


10 posted on 02/13/2013 12:32:51 PM PST by wxgesr (I want to be the first person to surf on another planet.)
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To: Kaslin

i believe the mexican govt calls illegals, illegals. among the nicer things they call them.


11 posted on 02/13/2013 12:35:05 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Kaslin

Simply unbelievable. What is worse, no one said STFU to him.


12 posted on 02/13/2013 12:35:46 PM PST by Mouton (108th MI Group.....68-71)
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To: Kaslin

Surprised he didn’t demand they speak in spanish.


13 posted on 02/13/2013 12:36:29 PM PST by stanne
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To: Kaslin

We call them ILLEGAL ALIENS because they are ILLEGAL ALIENS. If they think they can bully us into silence by using the race card, think again. It’s time we made it clear that the race card doesn’t work anymore.


14 posted on 02/13/2013 12:36:52 PM PST by GreenHornet
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To: Kaslin; Lazamataz
Okay Fine, you Lawbreaking Entitled Looter.

Why the Hell did my Parents have to through the Rigamoral to immigrate and gain citizenship in 1972. When all they could have done was change my Mothers name from "Linda" to "Rosa", cross the Rio Grande and got all this Sh!t for free!?!?

...You and the Horse your Rode in On!


15 posted on 02/13/2013 12:38:45 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: Kaslin

Call him “deported” instead.


16 posted on 02/13/2013 12:38:55 PM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Kaslin

Okay Mr. Tibbs. Now go back to Juarez or wherever you came from. But before you go, pay for your schooling, health care, court costs, and your taxes.


17 posted on 02/13/2013 12:39:08 PM PST by mbarker12474 (If thine enemy offend thee, give his childe a drum.)
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To: Lazamataz

LOLOL!! I would LOVE to see someone do that to 0bama,Pelosi,Reid and the whole damned bunch of them!


18 posted on 02/13/2013 12:41:21 PM PST by gimme1ibertee (When injustice becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.)
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To: BuffaloJack

Or felonious immigrant.


19 posted on 02/13/2013 12:41:24 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Kaslin

Tagline below.


20 posted on 02/13/2013 12:41:28 PM PST by showme_the_Glory (ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
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