“Immigrants”
Legal or illegal?
Remember Ellis Island?
There are liars and then there are pathological liars...
In the past SF was the home of screening of immigrants at Angel Island.
“Immigrants” “Legal or illegal?”
Athenians can be Greeks AND Athenians, but immigrants cannot be either legal or illegal.
In a Venn diagram, “immigrants” would be a closed category. There would be no overlap because they are distinct classes, or their own species.
So there is no such thing as someone being either a legal immigrant or an illegal immigrant: by definition, immigrants are legal. This is an important distinction. It underpins the BS premise of the argument of the left that “We are a nation of immigrants.”
Non-immigrants, foreigners lacking visas or any other foreign nationals here in violation of our laws have their own class. They are called `criminals’.
An “illegal immigrant” can only be an alien here in violation of our laws so the correct categorical definition for them is “illegal alien”.
I don’t mean to be pedantic, but this is why guys like the barking lefty writer here love to apply the word “immigrant” to foreign nationals who snuck into our country in violation of our immigration laws. A crime is the joint union of act and intent. So they know what they did is wrong.
It is a conscious deception on the parts of their enablers to use this word because they know there are still blue-pilled American batteries ever ready to buy the term “undocumented immigrants” (`See, all they need is this itsy bitsy, tiny piece of paper ... then they’re just like you and me, don’t you see? You’re a racist if you don’t.)
My favorite term for criminal, illegal aliens is `criminaliens’. The term illegal immigrant is a logical fallacy on its face. All it does is confuse 40 watt bulbs in the middle, so call them on the term immigrant whenever they try to apply it to illegal aliens.