Why do we keep calling illegal immigrants 'undocumented' in Mollie Tibbetts murder and other crimes?
By Pedro L. Gonzalez
Published August 24, 2018
FoxNews.com
Cristhian Rivera, who entered America illegally from his native Mexico, is charged with first-degree murder in the brutal killing of college student Mollie Tibbetts in Iowa. Yet few news organizations call him an illegal alien or an illegal immigrant. They either call him “undocumented†or avoid drawing attention to his illegal status.
The terms “illegal immigrant†and “illegal alien†are considered too harsh and too politically incorrect by the mainstream media arbiters of good taste.
“Undocumented†is so much more polite. It makes it sound like a man stopped by police simply left his driver’s license in another pair of pants at home, or a woman traveling lost her passport when her purse was stolen.
No, don’t say these folks are illegal entrants at all – just say they don’t have their documents handy.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/08/24/why-d