House bill would remove the term 'alien' from federal law

http://thehill.com/ ^ | 10/26/2015 | Lydia Wheeler

[massmike]

Rep. Joaquín Castro (D-Texas) has introduced the Correcting Hurtful and Alienating Names in Government Expression Act. The bill would remove the term "illegal alien" and replace it with "undocumented foreign national” and keep executive branch agencies from using “alien” or "illegal alien" in signage and literature.

"Words matter, particularly in the context of an issue as contentious as immigration," Castro said.

"Discontinuing our use of the term 'alien' will help lessen the prejudice and vitriol that for too long have poisoned our nation's discussions around immigration reform," he added.

[fwdude]

This reads like satire, except sadly it isn’t.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

One of the Newspeak engineers says, “[we’re] cutting the language down to the bone . . . Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year."

For the Democrat Party, the goal is to impose an orthodox reality and make heretical thought (‘thoughtcrime’) impossible. “In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible,” explains the Newspeak engineer, “because there will be no words in which to express it."

[Moonman62]

You mean the official term has been “illegal alien” all along?

[Tennessee Nana]

The only hurtful word is immigrant in illegal immigrant..

its hurtful to real immigrants like me..

meanwhile illegal alien continues work and doesn’t hurt me at all..

[NorthMountain]

Discontinuing our use of the term 'alien' and replacing it with 'hostile foreign invader' will help lessen the tendency of leftists in the uniparty to successfully obscure the true nature of those who violate our borders.

[j.havenfarm]

Well, at least it doesn’t have a cute acronym or a heart tugging name like “Jose’s Law.” I hate those.

[stanne]

The house works for us. We did not hire them to sit around talking about this crap. Geeze. Term limits. Please. Then these idiot lobbyist slaves would have real jobs and could have a chance to have an idea of true economics and self worth.

I am sick of these disgusting people

We are experiencing an invasion. The house is enabling it. Paul Ryan is a disaster waiting to happen

[Liz]

Bill introed by Joaquin Castro—Dumbo Cong fraudulently elected by the disgusting Latino Bund in Texas.

When is this clown, his fat La Raza mother and his grabby brother-—(Obama’s bagman over at the notoriously corrupt HUD) —— gonna register as agents of a foreign govt?

[The_Media_never_lie]

Castro’s mommie is a commie.

[Liz]

No question.

[outofsalt]

[SaxxonWoods]

In the spirit of compromise I offer:

“Undocumented Foreign Invader”.

[cgbg]

Presumably in the future we are to refer to extraterrestrials as “our space brothers”? Oops—that would be sexist.

[HarleyLady27]

LOLOL....

[Chode]

[factoryrat]

Change it to “criminal foreign invaders”. Seems a more fitting description.

[blondiegoodbadugly]

If it’s “hurtful and alienating” why don’t they try to become citizens legally?

[blondiegoodbadugly]

“P.C. alert!!! The ‘aliens’ are coming...the ‘aliens’ are coming...ops they are already here!!!!”

LOL

[NFHale]

RE “...This post is satire. No one in congress could be a complete idiot. ...”

Umm, you’ve never heard of Hank Johnson and his “Guam might tip over” spiel, perhaps???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7XXVLKWd3Q

[jagusafr]

Oh, never underestimate the Castro brothers...