Geraldo calls the term “illegal alien” a cheap shot. Sally Kohn says it is a slur. So does this guy. The term is verboten at many newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, which prefers to say “immigrants who either entered the country illegally or overstayed their visas.”
ICE, by contrast, refers to illegal aliens as, well, “illegal aliens.”
Yeah, no one uses the "i" word any more: http://t.co/3vpuifqok8
— Mark Krikorian (@MarkSKrikorian) July 29, 2014
A sampling:
Appalling!
Just kidding. We couldn’t care less. But we’re surprised liberals aren’t jumping up and down about this.
Related:
‘Absolute self-parody’: Sally Kohn likens term ‘illegals’ to racial, anti-gay slurs
Geraldo Rivera: ‘illegal alien’ maybe not racist-y, but it’s totally a cheap shot
AP won’t accept ‘illegal immigrant’ to describe a person; Will it stop accepting ‘fetus’?
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