Ilhan Omar criticizes Trump for using legal term on immigration: 'No one is an 'alien''

Fox News ^ | 6-20-19 | Sam Dorman

[SJackson]

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., took aim at President Trump for calling illegal immigrants "aliens," and accused the current administration of dehumanizing immigrants.

"No one is an 'alien,'" she tweeted. She was responding to Trump announcing that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would "begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States."

"Dehumanizing immigrants and tearing apart families will not make us any stronger. It will only destroy lives, traumatize children, and make our country less safe," Omar also said.

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Omar's comments reflected a broader tension within the United States over how to refer to illegal immigrants. Describing people as "illegal" or "aliens" received criticism from Democrats and even the Associated Press, which previously updated its style guide to prohibit the use of "illegal alien."

Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, however, specifically directed his Justice Department not to use terms other than "illegal alien" which he said was based in U.S. code. “The word ‘undocumented’ is not based in US code and should not be used to describe someone’s illegal presence in the country,” he reportedly said in an agency-wide email.

[SJackson]

There is in the English language. There is in the American language. It's a legal term, found in American law since the 18th century, before that in common law. People not of this nation are aliens when they come here, even legally. I understand the confusion, in Somalia they call them infidels.

[Innovative]

She is only demonstrating her own bias and ignorance.

[Jamestown1630]

Merriam Webster's second definition:

a foreign-born resident who has not been naturalized and is still a subject or citizen of a foreign country

[lodi90]

Criminal foreign national works for me.

[Sacajaweau]

She is so stupid.....and so anti-America.

[Jamestown1630]

It’s an appropriate term for anyone who is here and not a citizen.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Fine - call them criminals.

[dsc]

As far as I am concerned, you will always be an alien.

[Lizavetta]

I beg to differ.

[SuperLuminal]

Omar may not (now) be an illegal alien, but he is an absolute POS-America-hating alien..
So what possible business of his are our language and cultural standards?

[mountainlion]

“”Dehumanizing immigrants and tearing apart families will not make us any stronger. It will only destroy lives, traumatize children, and make our country less safe,” Omar also said.”

But it is OK for Muler and his brown shirts to do it to conservatives.

[Kaslin]

You got that right. She sure will be.

[bravo whiskey]

I was thinking of vijar who looks like one of the ugly aliens from original V.

[SuperLuminal]

Since the scumbag is usually wrapped up head-to-toe in rags, I’m not sure it is a “he” or a “she”...

[Secret Agent Man]

I am cool with the more accurate use of “invader”.

[bigbob]

Dis bitch...

[Secret Agent Man]

The proper response to her, and any socialist language control freak snowflake, is “fuch off and die”.

[Vision]

She's a hateful fool, not loyal to America, and only in congress because of a backward, suicidal immigration system designed by the Left to bring revolution to the USA.

[RedMonqey]

Unfortunately Carville is a legal “alien’

He has the papers...

[Secret Agent Man]

And her assertions are emotionally idiotic.

I assert it will make the country stronger by valuing actual citizens and bonding them together in a common experience, by isolating foreign invaders and not giving them the same status as native citizens and legal immigrants.