Posted on 09/05/2017 7:14:39 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
... Close your eyes for a second and imagine the term “alien”. What comes to mind? Probably something not human. Now throw the word “illegal” in front of it. What do you get? Who knows, maybe an alien in a prison jumpsuit. Can you see what I’m getting at?
Calling somebody an illegal alien should never be the wording that you use. Not because it’s not “politically correct” but because those two words completely dehumanize the situation that these people are in and the hardships they have endured.
We don’t call people who come to the U.S. via the legal channels “legal aliens” we call them Americans. They gave up their old lives in order to work for a better life in the United States. We honor that commitment by treating them like human beings and giving them rights. Shouldn’t that liberty apply to everyone?
At the end of the day, every single undocumented immigrant in this country is a person. Can we all agree that? Which means they can’t be illegal. No human being is illegal. And just like no human being can be illegal, no human being can be alien.
Calling immigrants illegal aliens makes it very easy to see them differently for yourself. It allows people to dehumanize them and make them seem like some kind threatening population. Immigration reform is one of the largest human rights challenges of our time. Without knowledge of them being undocumented, every single one of these immigrants is a member of our community just trying to make their lives better. Where I come from, we try and help members of our community not force them out.
Immigrants are people, undocumented or not. Let’s actually treat them as people, in words and in actions. It’s the human thing to do.
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Come on everyone how can you argue against such a logical argument. I totally see the errors in my ways.
Tough to pack so much specious logic in so few words. I like how the argument by the authors admission doesn't hold for most of the day.
Can we all agree .... you know next what is coming is BS
Perhaps this putz could unpack the word deutch-bag.
‘Illegal Alien’ perfectly describes what it is. Or perhaps ‘Alien Invader’ might work too.
“it’s time” == I’m 22 and I’ve been hearing about this since I was 5 years old. That’s like 17 years and stuff.
BTW: Should we stop calling bank robbers and thieves, bank robbers and thieves? How about murderers, what should we call them? They’re humans too! What about rapists and racists? What should we call them? Stick to taking pictures you idiot and leave the rest to the adults.
Invading extranational?
Nobody uses the term ‘foreigner’ anymore.
Cry me a river, snowflake.
And shouldn’t.
Oh let’s just keep calling them illegal aliens. That’s what they are.
Illegal alien is perfectly good legal definition!!!
It’s long past time to “unpack” stupid hipster dumbass phrases like “unpack”.
Crimmigrant
No.
a·li·en. [ˈālēən]
ADJECTIVE
1. belonging to a foreign country or nation.
We don’t call people who come to the U.S. via the legal channels “legal aliens”...
No, we call them "immigrants".
What an idiot.
the proper term is Registered Alien
a green card is a Alien Registration card...
it has a number which is later annotated on the right top corner of the Naturalization document when the immigrant becomes an American citizen...
Amar: “We don’t call people who come to the U.S. via the legal channels “legal aliens” we call them Americans.”
Don’t you know that every tourist or ambassador who visits or has business negotiations in the USA is “now an American”?
They are citizens of other countries, not illegal citizens of the US.
Newspeak. Controlling words to control thought.
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