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General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: rangerrebew on November 13, 2017, 04:01:34 pm

Title: From Illegal Alien to Undocumented Immigrant. Orwell Would Have Been Proud
Post by: rangerrebew on November 13, 2017, 04:01:34 pm

    From Illegal Alien to Undocumented Immigrant. Orwell Would Have Been Proud

    On 11/8/17 at 12:54 PM

    Vocabulary changes always reflect the agendas of a political debate.

    The fight over illegal immigration plays out by altering words and their meanings.

    Take the traditional rubric “illegal alien.” The English has been clear and exact for nearly a century: illegal alien (cf. Latin alienus ) was a descriptive term for any foreigner who crossed the US border without coming through customs to obtain proper legal sanction.

    Illegal alien, then, was a politically neutral, exact, and descriptive term: one used by both the Supreme Court and Internal Revenue Service.
 

    http://www.newsweek.com/illegal-alien-undocumented-immigrant-orwell-would-have-been-proud-705664

Title: Re: From Illegal Alien to Undocumented Immigrant. Orwell Would Have Been Proud
Post by: dfwgator on November 13, 2017, 04:15:18 pm

Soon it will be "Entitled Guest".

Title: Re: From Illegal Alien to Undocumented Immigrant. Orwell Would Have Been Proud
Post by: Fishrrman on November 13, 2017, 11:51:16 pm

dfw wrote:
Soon it will be "Entitled Guest".

From a practical standpoint, it already is.