Sarcasm, actually. I’m for calling people what they are, not flattering them with pleasant falsehoods. We’re becoming a society where everyone is offended by anything that isn’t flattery and feel-good descriptions. And it makes people more bitter as a result, giving them every reason to point fingers and call other bigots when they’re only telling the truth.
Precisely. But a lot of people say it with a straight face, ready to call you a `xenophobic bigot’ if you disagree with their sophistry.
Take away the facts in the descriptive label (as used by the legislators in the statutes), that they are foreign nationals who broke our immigration laws, making them criminals at the get-go, and replace them with, “Why, it’s just a few papers separating those yearning to breathe free from joining a nation of immigrants ...”
So more violence to the language, thus critical thinking by the most transparent administration ever, in favor of a general amnesty with vague promises of border security as in `86.
Good for the GOP, although I suspect if not for the Trump phenomenon this would have `slipped through the cracks’ as a “de minimis matter”.