On 3/9/2020 3:12 PM, Mattb wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 13:11:27 -0700, Rudy Canoza wrote:
>> On 3/9/2020 11:59 AM, Mattb wrote:
>>> On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 07:14:11 -0700, Rudy Canoza wrote:
>>>> On 6/15/2019 11:24 AM, David Hartung wrote:
>>>>> On 6/15/19 12:28 PM, Rudy Canoza wrote:
>>>>>> On 6/15/2019 10:20 AM, David Hartung wrote:
>>>>>>> On 6/15/19 12:02 PM, David Hartung wrote:
>>>>>>>> It is intended to discourage immigrants from responding,
>>>>>>>> leading to undercounts.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Why would immigrants not wish to respond? Illegal aliens
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No such thing.
>>>>>
>>>>> Actually there are,
>>>>
>>>> There aren't. The term is a nonsense, grammatically and factually.
>>>
>>> Then you pay for them.
>>
>> I'm not talking about anyone paying for "them." I'm instructing
>> Hartung, and you, that there is no such thing as "illegal aliens."
>> There are "undocumented immigrants," or "unlawfully present aliens,"
>> but no "illegal aliens." The term is a nonsense.
>
> Sorry I do not believe in liberal PC.
Don't be sorry for being correct, just learn how to spell
liberal BS correctly. And maybe back your point up like this:
https://www.heritage.org/immigration/commentary/sorry-the-accurate-legal-term-illegal-alien
Sorry, but the Accurate Legal Term is 'Illegal Alien'
The College Fix is reporting that the politically correct Rutgers
University student newspaper, the Daily Targum, has fired columnist Aviv
Khavich for trying to use the term âillegal alienâ in a column about
illegal immigration. After he complained to his editor that she had
changed illegal alienâ to âundocumented immigrantâ in a column he
submitted, he was fired.
âUndocumented immigrantâ is the term created by the Left and pushed by
activist liberal organizations such as La Raza to obscure the illegal
actions and conduct of those who violate our immigration laws. Khavich
blames the editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, Dan Corey, who
claimed that âillegalâ was changed to âundocumentedâ for âstylistic
purposes.â Corey apparently doesnât care that the Daily Targumâs
âstylistic changeâ is a refusal to use accurate legal terminology, which
one would assume is the goal of all news organizations.
Federal district court Judge Andrew Hanen of the Southern District of
Texas dealt with this specific issue when he issued a preliminary
injunction on Feb. 16, 2015, against President Barack Obamaâs
immigration amnesty plan. This was in U.S. v. Texas, the lawsuit filed
by 26 states to stop the âDeferred Action for Parents of Americans and
Lawful Permanent Residentsâ program announced by Obama in November 2014.
This case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court after the Fifth
Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the injunction. The justices split
four-to-four on the case, leaving the injunction in place and the
presidentâs plan dead for the rest of his term.
In footnote two of his Feb. 16 order, Hanen says this:
The Court uses the phrases âillegal immigrantâ and âillegal alienâ
interchangeablyâŚThe Court also understands that there is a certain
segment of the population that finds the phrase âillegal alienâ
offensive. The Court uses this term because it is the term used by the
Supreme Court in its latest pronouncement pertaining to this area of the
law. See Arizona v. United States, 132 S. Ct. 2492 (2012).
Arizona v. United States is the 2012 Supreme Court decision in which the
Court, while striking down certain portions of Arizonaâs new law on
illegal aliens, upheld its most controversial provision â the
requirement that state law enforcement officials verify the immigration
status of individuals they stop, detain or arrest if they have a
âreasonable suspicionâ that the person is âunlawfully present in the
United States.â The term âillegal alienâ is used by the Supreme Court in
that case on multiple occasions, such as when the Court points out that
a particular amendment to federal immigration law was passed as âa
comprehensive framework for âcombating the employment of illegal
aliensââ (emphasis added).
Apparently, using the correct legal term is not important to the
Associated Press either, which is supposed to keep us all accurately
informed of the news without any partisan bias. The AP also decided a
couple of years ago that instead of using the applicable legal
terminology, it would change its style guide to prohibit the use of
âIllegalâ when talking about immigrants because the AP wants to avoid
âlabelingâ anyone.