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Old 06-14-2009, 03:20 PM
 
Location: Where laws can be ignored due to political correctness
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First, if we define "immigrants" as most people would, meaning those millions who have gone through the minimal required legal steps to immigrate to America legally, I wonder where we would find the "immigrants (who) have been suffering for many, many years and living in the shadows."

I know plenty of immigrants. They're proud to be active participants in every aspect of American life, because they know if the occasion should ever arise where they should have to prove they have a legal right to be here, that won't be any problem.

The people to whom Ms. Arguello-Kline refers as "immigrants" aren't "immigrants," by that sensible definition, at all. They're trespassing illegal aliens, who violate multiple laws, including the statutes against fraud and identify theft, every day they're here. That is who she's talking about -- right?

Calling these people "undocumented" is meant to create the impression their "documents merely failed to show up in the mail," a situation easily remedied by filling out a couple pesky forms. That's like calling a rapist an "insensitive lover" or a bank robber a "customer who makes withdrawals without presenting proper withdrawal slips."
VIN SUPRYNOWICZ: Speaking in code to disguise what they mean - Opinion - ReviewJournal.com

Excellent journalistic piece right there.

Those who mainly use 'undocumented' are trying to mitigate the fact that illegals are criminals who broke our laws on their own free wills.
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Old 06-14-2009, 05:35 PM
 
Location: The Wine Country, CA
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Awesome Article and VERY True.. Thank you for posting!!!
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Old 06-14-2009, 06:09 PM
 
Location: California
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Excellent Post A.R.....
An article stripped of the usual PC bolshoi.....



"By which Mr. Ashman actually meant to say that he now demands we "finish the job of making our borders the least secure in the world, inviting every poor person in the hemisphere to swarm here illegally, thus bankrupting legal immigrants and native-born Americana alike, and if you object I'm going to call you a racist and pretend your forebears broke just as many laws getting here as my clients break every day."

Hmmmmmm, sounds familiar.....
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Old 06-14-2009, 06:29 PM
 
Location: Maryland
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How true! Pro-illegals think if they continue to use euphemisms we will eventually accept illegal aliens as being ‘pending’ citizens. Likewise, they believe they can break us by spewing accusations of racism. They have missed their mark completely.
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Old 06-14-2009, 06:45 PM
 
Location: Mesa, Az
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How true! Pro-illegals think if they continue to use euphemisms we will eventually accept illegal aliens as being ‘pending’ citizens. Likewise, they believe they can break us by spewing accusations of racism. They have missed their mark completely.
Of course the irony is that a legal immigrant is; technically speaking, a legal alien.

As for the pathetic attempts of the mostly Spanish speaking Mestizo illegal aliens to use the 'race card'.............it has backfired as you stated. Quite badly I may add.
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Old 06-15-2009, 02:05 AM
 
Location: Where laws can be ignored due to political correctness
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How true! Pro-illegals think if they continue to use euphemisms we will eventually accept illegal aliens as being ‘pending’ citizens. Likewise, they believe they can break us by spewing accusations of racism. They have missed their mark completely.
I happen to notice the same because when I browsed through the websites of LULAC, MALDEF, NCLR & the US Chamber of Commerce it seems that EVERY one of them only uses the word 'undocumented' and never illegal.
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