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"Illegal Alien"

Is the term "illegal alien" offensive?


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It is to me, and I don't use it, but I find it interesting how Hobo is trying to make the two phrases comparable.
 
OK, I'm a new kid on the block, so I haven't taken the time to read all the comments. I don't find the term offensive, but it is confusing when we have issues such as health care, education, and driver's licenses for illegal aliens.

It makes this ole' country boy scratch his head and ask what illegal really means. Seems to me that if they are illegal, none of these other issues would really matter. Just pack them up and send them home. Isn't that they way every other country in the free world does it?
 
OK, I'm a new kid on the block, so I haven't taken the time to read all the comments. I don't find the term offensive, but it is confusing when we have issues such as health care, education, and driver's licenses for illegal aliens.

It makes this ole' country boy scratch his head and ask what illegal really means. Seems to me that if they are illegal, none of these other issues would really matter. Just pack them up and send them home. Isn't that they way every other country in the free world does it?

Yes.

I am also proud to say I served under Ronald Reagan, and welcome aboard!
 
OK, I'm a new kid on the block, so I haven't taken the time to read all the comments. I don't find the term offensive, but it is confusing when we have issues such as health care, education, and driver's licenses for illegal aliens.

It makes this ole' country boy scratch his head and ask what illegal really means. Seems to me that if they are illegal, none of these other issues would really matter. Just pack them up and send them home. Isn't that they way every other country in the free world does it?

I too am confused although illegal I take it means not lagal which is not lawful.

However here we are deciding if Illegal aliens is offensive.

How about LAW BREAKER?
 
Hey, you know things are pretty confused when Sammy Hagar writes a song about wetbacks crossing the borderline. Does this one make us want to help or build better fences?

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BNNuI4GMMM"]YouTube - Avenida Revolucion CHICKENFOOT with Lyrics[/ame]

Rio Grande crawling with desperation
Hard drugs linin' the gunny sack
The air is thick with desperation
A new life waits for the wetback

Crossing the borderline
Into the fire

Now this is where Juan left his family
You can still smell the blood in his tracks
Yeah, and this is where we found the baby, oh
From here, there ain't no turnin' back

Crossing the borderline
Into the fire
Crossing the borderline
Into the fire

Import, transport, exportation
Rights of nations, exploited salvation
Damnation under one God's fixation
Without deportations, predjudice with limitations

Yeah, Avenida Revolution
Nogales Tiajuana meets the County Juarez
We got flowers, crosses and no solution, oh
Stay close and do what Mommy says, what Mommy says, Mommy says

Well, crossing the borderline
Into the fire
Crossing the borderline
Into the fire
 
Hey, you know things are pretty confused when Sammy Hagar writes a song about wetbacks crossing the borderline. Does this one make us want to help or build better fences?

YouTube - Avenida Revolucion CHICKENFOOT with Lyrics

Rio Grande crawling with desperation
Hard drugs linin' the gunny sack
The air is thick with desperation
A new life waits for the wetback

Crossing the borderline
Into the fire

Now this is where Juan left his family
You can still smell the blood in his tracks
Yeah, and this is where we found the baby, oh
From here, there ain't no turnin' back

Crossing the borderline
Into the fire
Crossing the borderline
Into the fire

Import, transport, exportation
Rights of nations, exploited salvation
Damnation under one God's fixation
Without deportations, predjudice with limitations

Yeah, Avenida Revolution
Nogales Tiajuana meets the County Juarez
We got flowers, crosses and no solution, oh
Stay close and do what Mommy says, what Mommy says, Mommy says

Well, crossing the borderline
Into the fire
Crossing the borderline
Into the fire

An old saying for ya,

"GOOD FENCES MAKE GOOD NEIGHBORS."
 
I think its kinda offensive, but it will be better to call them Illegal Humans then calling them Aliens and immigrants or whatever.
 
You're so good at this. I can never attain your level of double-speak.

Trust me you are not alone in that situation.

More than once Tucker has left me looking at my computer screne and thinking, and thinking...
 
Hell not its not offensive. Neither is the term "illegals". What is offensive is an attempt be pro-criminals/pro-illegals to try to lump illegals in with immigrants by calling them "immigrants" or "undocumented immigrants" or lumping illegals in with Americans by calling illegals "undocumented Americans". This offensiveness is nothing more than attempt on their part so they can falsely claim they are fighting for immigrant rights or falsely claim that illegal immigration opponents are anti-immigrant. It would be like lumping all Europeans in with Eurotrash just by simply referring to both as eurotrash.

Well, they DO have a point, so let's compromise. I am in favor of changing the term "illegal alien" to "undocumented criminal". :mrgreen:
 
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