More Immigration Newspeak: Associated Press Edition
By Robert Law on March 29, 2021
Words matter. Open-borders advocates know this and have spent decades obscuring their policy intentions by replacing accurate terminology with concocted, sympathetic terms. The most glaring example of course is the use of "undocumented" when referring to illegal aliens. Immigration law violators don’t lack documents; they lack permission to be in the country.
Under the Biden administration, even benign, technical legal terms like “alien†are under attack as “dehumanizingâ€. As I’ve repeatedly pointed out, the statutory definition of “alien†is found at section 101(a)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act as, “The term ‘alien’ means any person not a citizen or national of the United States.†Are persons not human?
But now the absurdity has crept into the general English language to describe real-world events in the immigration space. A record number of illegal aliens are being apprehended at the border, and the numbers keep growing, but the Biden administration, led by DHS secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, refuse to call the situation a crisis. Instead, they want the American people to believe that it is merely a "challenge".
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