Nancy Pelosi chides John Boehner over term ‘alien’ in immigration debate

Washington Times ^ | 6/20/14 | Stephen Dinan

[Libloather]

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s office Friday chided House Speaker John A. Boehner for calling illegal immigrant children “aliens” in a Twitter message.

“Mr. Speaker, these comments and labels are inexcusable and reprehensible — no one should be politicizing the ordeal of these children in such a manner,” Mrs. Pelosi’s office said.

**SNIP**

Indeed, the Obama administration’s Homeland Security Department officially refers to the kids surging across the border as “Unaccompanied Alien Children.”

[Libloather]

Pretty soon you won't be able to call RATS evil.

[GeronL]

What is she talking about? Alien is the word that has been used for centuries.

[darkwing104]

no one should be politicizing the ordeal of these children in such a manner

Only Democrats are allowed to do that

[Genoa]

It’s a technical legal term from a time when such things mattered to Democrats.

[DoughtyOne]

Exactly! That’s why she must make that word out of bounds.

[ilovesarah2012]

I wish he would just tell her to...oh, never mind. But I will.

FUNP.

[boycott]

If Boehner was a little more than a vegetable, he would realize this is a good opportunity to slam Pelosi and Obama. Obama has refused to enforce the law and has created this humanitarian crisis.

[JaguarXKE]

It is codified in our imigration laws! (such as they are)

[kingattax]

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! -

Samuel Adams

[Jim Robinson]

You can’t call an alien “illegal” or even “alien.” You can’t call a homo “homo.” And it ain’t nice to call a bitch “bitch” or an idiot “idiot,” but sometimes the truth is the truth and it just goes unsaid. But obvious.

[bert]

The language must not be surrendered. Political correctness must be rendered obsolete. Proponents must be ostracized

[RIghtwardHo]

What’s she want. Greys?

[cripplecreek]

Its an old tactic.

(amazon) Language of the Third Reich

In the book Victor Klemperer details how the nazis manipulated the German language as a means of manipulating German society into being more accepting of nazi goals.

Its kind of like the democrats bringing back indentured servitude and calling it a path to citizenship.

[blueplum]

open up a child’s center in the Presidio - and let’s see how Pelosi squawks then!

[A_Tradition_Continues]

The only things “alien” to the wicked woman are the Constitution and US immigration laws...and perhaps a life without botox.

[bert]

it is ok to call a queer a queer

[xzins]

Dear Nancy:

alien (adj.)

mid-14c., "strange, foreign," from Old French alien "alien, strange, foreign; an alien, stranger, foreigner," from Latin alienus "of or belonging to another, foreign, alien, strange," also, as a noun, "a stranger, foreigner," adjectival form of alius "(an)other" (see alias (adv.)). Meaning "not of the Earth" first recorded 1920. An alien priory (c.1500) is one owing obedience to a mother abbey in a foreign country.

alien (n.)

"foreigner, citizen of a foreign land," from alien (adj.). In the science fiction sense, from 1953.

[Jrabbit]

Did Boner break into tears and apologize, yet?

[DeWalt]

Tell her to STFU. It was her Macdaddy that created the present mess.

[GeronL]

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