Posted on 06/26/2012 12:21:20 PM PDT by mojito
Charles Garcia — the CEO of Garcia Trujillo, a strategy firm that works with Hispanic-owned companies — does not like the term illegal immigrant. He prefers economic refugee.
He is not alone. Media Matters for America, the liberal website “dedicated to . . . correcting conservative misinformation,” claimed that Fox News used President Obama’s June 15 immigration announcement as an “opportunity to dehumanize undocumented immigrants.” MMFA reported that Fox News used the term illegals 17 times during its June 15 broadcast, illegal aliens twice, and aliens once, not including uses of these terms in on-screen text. These “racial slurs” are further proof, the site contended, of Fox’s “long, documented history of anti-immigrant bias.”
Efforts to change the parlance of the immigration debate are not new. In 2010 the Diversity Committee of the Society of Professional Journalists called on journalists nationwide to replace illegal immigrant and illegal alien with undocumented worker or undocumented immigrant, arguing that the usual terms are “offensive” to Latinos.
That same year, the Applied Research Center, a self-described “racial justice think tank,” launched its Drop the I-Word (DTIW) campaign, calling on media outlets and elected officials to “uphold reason, due process, and responsible speech by dropping the i-word.” Illegals, the think tank contends, “is a racially charged slur used to dehumanize and discriminate against immigrants and people of color regardless of migratory status.”
But while DTIW maintains that “the i-word” is racist, dehumanizing, and often inaccurate, is it actually any of the three?
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It's racist, even though there is no reference to race in the term. It's "coded" you see.
And besides, it's wrong to say that something illegal is actually illegal. These folks are simply "undocumented," which makes it sound like the dog ate their papers as they were crossing the border.
I prefer ‘Illegal Inhabitants’ or ‘Foreign Invaders’. ‘Immigrant’ has a positive tone to it so it does not apply to ILLEGAL activity.
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..that's a slur.
Criminal+immigrant = Crimmigrant
He’s right. They should be called “alien invaders”.
The left has achieved so much success with the charge of racism, they apply it to every opposition they encounter.
You two are the worst offenders here :)
They are, instead, illegal aliens ~
rush limbaugh talked about “illegal immigrant” on his show today. There is no such thing as an illegal immigrant! Try illegal invader, etc. It can only be legal immigrant.
Fine. I don’t care what you call them, just deport all the “economic refugees” who are in the country illegally.
how about illegal wetdream backs.
***He prefers economic refugee.***
Sorry, Charlie...nobody gives a rat’s @$$ what you prefer.
Pfffft! A couple years ago, they were trying to change the term to "undocumented citizens." Don't change the language you use, people. One of the first things you learn in debate or law is if you can get the opposition to accept and use your terminology, you control the debate and have a much stronger position. Don't fall for it.
Furthermore, during President Eisenhower's administration, the very effective "Operation Wetback" campaign was in full force. I was in my early teens at the time and I don't recall any objections whatsoever to the name. In fact, all real Americans applauded the program and its positive outcome. Frankly, we need to have "Operation Wetback 2.0" now. With our improved technology, it can be even more productive today.
illegal immigrant n. an alien (non-citizen) who has entered the United States without government permission or stayed beyond the termination date of a visa.
“He prefers economic refugee. “
Should that be leaf blowing’ economic refugee?
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