Sir:
It is by now quite plain that the political-correctness handbook of the Los Angeles Times prohibits describing illegal aliens in any terms not glowing with approval.
Your latest contemptible case in point, the 1,474-word page-1 story "Father's Modest Dream Leads To Tragic Journey", uses the unmodified word "migrant" nine times, "undocumented" twice, and "illegal" not once. Unwillingness to use plain language shows a hidden agenda, a desire deliberately to mislead.
It is the common practice of scoundrels.
--Boris