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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive
Odd, how the actual migrants feel about this.
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Then we need to start calling "legal migrants" "legals." Not "migrants." Since it's SO important to call migrants who came here illegally, "illegals" then migrants who came here legally should be called "legals."
Let me know when that trend picks up.
Til then, they're ALL migrants, and immigrants. They have all come to live here- from somewhere else. Regardless of how they got here or their legal status once they get here.
Legal and illegal are conditions; they're adjectives. A person isn't an adjective. They're a noun. Migrant and immigrant are nouns.
Legal and illegal describe a person's status, not the person him/herself. They are not illegal. They aren't illegal immigrants. They're immigrants who have committed a crime by entering unlawfully. You don't call burglars "illegals" do you? Why not? They've committed crimes too. Do you call them "illegal inventory movers?" No? Why not? You're using the same type of terminology to describe people who move themselves from one place to another when they're not allowed to do so.
You're objectifying people, when you call them illegal immigrants or illegals. THEY are not illegal. They're 100% legitimately people who are allowed to be people. Their BEHAVIOR is illegal - but THEY - are not.