Judge Bans Use Of “Illegal” and “Aliens”

Judicial Watch ^

[WaveMan]

Arizona’s Supreme Court chief justice has agreed to enforce the Hispanic Bar Association’s demands of banning the terms “illegal” and “aliens” in all of the state’s courtrooms.

Claiming that the terms are inflammatory, the president of Arizona’s Hispanic Bar Association, (known as Los Abogados) has asked state Supreme Court Chief Justice Ruth McGregor to stop using them at trials or hearings because they create perceptions of judicial bias.

In a strongly worded letter to the chief justice, Los Abogados’ president says attaching an illegal status to a person establishes a brand of contemptibility, creates the appearance of anti-immigrant prejudice and tarnishes the image of courts as a place where disputes may be fairly resolved.

It further points out that no human being is illegal and that a national Hispanic journalism association has roundly criticized the reference for dehumanizing a segment of the population. The letter goes on to criticize the state’s High Court for using the term “illegals” in at least two opinions and the term “illegal aliens” in dozens of others.

It concludes with a list of acceptable and unacceptable terms relating to illegal immigration. Among those the group wants banned are; immigration crisis, immigration epidemic, open borders advocates, anchor babies and invaders. Among the acceptable terms are foreign nationals, unauthorized workers and human rights advocates. Click here to see the entire list as well as Chief Justice McGregor’s promise to enforce the requests.

[max americana]

> The term, “illegal alien”, is used extensively in Federal statutes.

That’s good info to know SD.

[Joe Boucher]

Wasn’t aware you could force language changes on the people.
What an ass this judge is.
Illegal aliens should ALL be rounded up and sent back to from whatever crap hole they came from.
And Arizona has the McLame politicians and judges they deserve.

[Moltke]

1. Reading the original exchange of letters linked to in the blog, note how the Chief Justice addresses the Abogados by their first names. A bit chummy, no?

2. Not surprisingly, the Abogados use that old canard how no person is “illegal”. Hello! “Illegal alien” is a compound term. “Illegal” just qualifies the subject. If I said I am a “football fan”, would anyone in their right mind reply “no person is a football”? Strangely, I’ve never seen this idiocy pointed out.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Is this from “The Onion”?

[MrB]

As someone on another thread stated,

if we called thieves “butterflies”,
then it wouldn’t be long before “butterflies” was a derogatory term.

[tacticalogic]

Maybe we should call them “border enforcement failures”.