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Originally Posted by tophcfa
What has me scratching my head are the folks that choose to call illegal immigrants undocumented migrants. Like that somehow makes them coming into the country illegally less illegal???? Putting lipstick on a pig doesn’t change the fact it’s a pig. Go figure.
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So now you want to just call all these people pigs, and anyone who wants to treat them as human beings are trying to put lipstick on them?
Nice.
There is a distinction, which some folks fail to notice, or care about, because they see brown skin and hear foreign accents and immediately assume they're violent criminals, gang members, drug smugglers.
There's such a thing as "asylum-seekers." They're a thing. One of the criteria to seek asylum in the US, is to come over the border ILLEGALLY and request asylum. You are, and continue to be, an "illegal alien" while you wait for your hearing. You're not breaking any laws, and in fact, you are obeying them. So you're not "illegal." You are "undocumented."
Furthermore, PEOPLE are not "illegal." The word "illegal" is an adjective. In the phrase "illegal aliens" you are describing the aliens themselves - the people - as illegal people. It's called dehumanizing, and it is a tactic used to make marginalized people "less" or "inferior" than the people using the terms.
Humans are not illegal. Their behavior or actions or activities might be illegal. But the people themselves are not. Considering the pro-life stance so many people have these days, you would think the fact that these are fully-born adult people would be celebrated, not vilified.
Any American born at home whose mother never filled out a birth certificate form or applied for a social security number - would fit into your criteria of "illegal." Check out some folks from Appalachia and you'll find bunches of them. But they're not illegal. They're just undocumented. They have no proof of citizenship. And yet - they are American citizens, born and bred from American citizen parents, who were born and bred from American citizen parents.