It’s long past time to “unpack” stupid hipster dumbass phrases like “unpack”.
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.
Newspeak. Controlling words to control thought.
While they are here they are illegal aliens.
After they return to their own country they will no longer be called illegal aliens, they will get their “human” identity or whatever the concern is back.
I recognize they are humans, I know for a fact that some are really decent people, and I also know some are evil criminals. That is the issue, our immigration laws are the only way to attempt to sort the good from the bad people that want to come here. If we don’t strictly enforce our immigration laws we are allowing evil criminals to walk right in without knowing where they came from, what their purpose here is, and what kind of person they are. I do not want to take that risk.
Those that support open borders and illegal immigration are not against the term illegal alien for any other reason than it makes it hard for them to BS people and confuse the illegal aliens with legal immigrants. Without that confusion it would be far harder for them to label people against illegal immigration as racists.
Oh goody...since he is a college student, he knows everything, right?
What utter bulls***. Lee Harvey Oswald was certainly an illegal human being when he committed the act of murder against JFK.
An "undocumented immigrant" is someone who was asked for an ID and told the police he left his Green-Card in the dresser drawer at home. So maybe he's an undocumented immigrant while he goes home to fetch it, followed by a stern lecture that's he's supposed to carry it at ALL times, just like it says on the card itself.
Since I do agree with the guy that "alien" sounds like a green man from Mars, even though it is the proper term, I'll compromise on "illegal immigrant".
Now we're supposed to change this because the same crowd of historically ignorant and/or deceptive anti-American trash - who are also behind the attacks on America monuments and other reminders of our heritage and tradition - demand it.
To each and every demand of this crowd who have taken George Orwell's writings on socialist dystopias not as a warning but as a blueprint - we must say "SCREW THEM ALL!"
Legal alien, legal immigrant. Two equivalent statements.
"....we call them Americans.
Not until they are sworn in as citizens, we don't.
"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."
Until they are sworn in as citizens, the "rights" we give them are limited by immigration law, and are limited.
"Shouldn’t that liberty apply to everyone?"
No.
That was some fancy tap dancing.
We call them immigrants.
Yes, I know the document is the 1799 petition to appeal the Alien & Sedition Act, but it reveals the accepted use of “alien” as well any print of the original act would.
Anyone who uses the term “unpack” is about to drop a load of BS.
I agree. “Illegal Aliens” is a cumbersome term and not really properly descriptive and their alien status is fully legal. “Wetbacks” is a more concise and easily recognized term though it is derivative from the once but no longer normal mode of surreptitious entry.
We call them "resident aliens." We don't call them "Americans" until they naturalize and become citizens.
-PJ
“What do you get”!? An illegal alien. I would rather have real “aliens” from another planet. They could save us the transportation costs of shipping ours back home. Free spaceship rides!
Calling someone an “undocumented immigrant” is like calling shoplifting an “undocumented purchase.”
Or people might just need to learn what the word actually means instead of dreaming up a meaning in their head. We used to expect people to look up words they didn’t know.
Alien | Definition of Alien by Merriam-Webster
Definition of alien. 1a : belonging or relating to another person, place, or thing : strange; an alien environment b : relating, belonging, or owing allegiance to another country or government : foreign alien residents c : exotic 1 alien plants.
If you can’t change the facts, just change the words around...
Well now...that's real tough titty.. Maybe they should have stayed in their own country so they wouldn't have such a hard life here in the U.S.A...