A Colorado lawmaker wants to strike the term ‘illegal alien’ from state law, the NY Times reports. Susan Lontine believes it’s disparaging and wants a more politically correct term. It really causes her to “recoil” when the President or her conservative colleagues use the expression.
‘Illegal alien’ is the government’s official term.
The Times reports, “Ms. Lontine plans to introduce a bill this month that would remove the term “illegal aliens” from the law and replace it with the more neutral “undocumented immigrants,” saying that changing the words could bend social sentiment in migrants’ favor. And with Democrats now in control of the Legislature and the governor’s office, the bill may face relatively few hurdles.”
They continue, “But it comes as the conservative news media has increasingly broadcast messages that demonize immigrants, in part echoing Mr. Trump’s scathing rhetoric on immigration — he used the term “illegal alien” at least five times during the State of the Union this month.”
The term aptly describes what they are. The term, ‘undocumented immigrants’ is another way of minimizing illegal entry. The goal is to make illegal aliens the norm, and to normalize illegal immigration. They aren’t immigrants and it’s not legal. If we don’t abide by that, we won’t have a country. Countries are defined by their borders.
California removed “alien” from its labor code. A New York City Council bill would ban “illegal alien” and “illegal immigrant” from city documents. And now this Colorado lawmaker wants to remove “illegal alien” from the state law. https://t.co/ZjfDGQcQjp
— NYT National News (@NYTNational) February 13, 2020
You can comment on the article after the ads and subscribe to the Daily Newsletter here if you would like a quick view of the articles of the day and any late news:
It’ will be a lot worse if they are carriers of the Coronvirus across our border. Who would know? Los Angeles is already a contaminated breeding ground for disease, as is any sanctuary city or state. PC,. Protecting Citizens should be of far greater concern than being PC, Pathetically Corrupt.
The term “illegal alien” should be replaced with either “foreign invader” or “job thief.”
The term “newspeak” was coined by George Orwell in his 1949 anti-utopian novel 1984. In Orwell’s fictional totalitarian state, Newspeak was a language favored by the minions of Big Brother and, in Orwell’s words, “designed to diminish the range of thought.” Newspeak was characterized by the elimination or alteration of certain words, the substitution of one word for another, the interchangeability of parts of speech, and the creation of words for political purposes. The word has caught on in general use to refer to confusing or deceptive bureaucratic jargon.
I read “1984” in 1964, our son read it in 1989, and our Grandson in 2014. We each had our own perspective when we first read it according to our own generation. It was our grandson who stated, “Orwell was foreshadowing what was to come in the future. In the time of my generation. He was off by 30 years”
To obliterate our borders to change our laws to conform to Marxist Socialism to allow over 30 million illegals to vote.