Which term would you prefer being used in regards to people that jump the Mexican border, "Undocumented Workers", or "Illegal Immagrants"?
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Well, to be an undocumented worker, you have to have a job. Assuming that's the case, the terms are interchangeable. I prefer illegal immigrant because it's straightfoward. Americans have this love affair with candy-coated words and phrases that add more importance than necessary to everyday things. A used car is used, not pre-owned. The guy who cleans the building is the janitor, not a maintenance technician. The guy you think committed the crime is a suspect, not a person of interest; you're interested inn him because you supect he did it. We used to call things what they were until we didn't feel good enough about our stuff and ourselves.
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Can't we just call them criminals, which they are, and send them back?
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The true terminology to be used here is "illegal alien".
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Tricky question. I'm going to choose "Illegal Immigrants", and, like C.D., prefer Illegal Alien. "Immigrant" implies "welcome". We have created a lot of this problem ourselves, as a culture. The Mexican folks that lived around my hometown worked very hard, and would do work that nobody else would. These were Legal Immigrants, who then brought family from Mexico Illegally. If our kids would buck hay and pick fruit instead of playing Nintendo and holding out for college and a "real job", there would be no job market for non English speaking Illegals. No jobs = No need to sneak into the country.
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Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented worker" is like calling a drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist". Illegal alien is the correct legal terminology.
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The USCIS calls them "Unauthorized Aliens" I don't like the term "undocumented", because you can be very legal, but be "undocumented". If you don't have the documents to prove your immigration status, including your citizenship, you are "undocumented".
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It doesn't make me any difference what so ever.
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What's wrong with Mexicans?
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indigenous people. observe this map from 1847 which shows the majority of the pacific south west was mexico
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I call them new neighbors.
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Why do you want to pretty up the name? It's a law, it's being broken! ENOUGH SAID!
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Illegal Aliens.
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I always use the accurate term, "Criminal Aliens" I never allow people to drop terms like undocumented worker, or migrant worker, etc. The fact remains that not all are here to work, and that 30% of our prison population is from "criminal aliens." That is a hard fact and not a made up number, look it up.
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I'd prefer to call them what they are: "criminal invaders". They are criminals for not going through the proper channels to be in this country legally. And for anyone who does not believe this country, the US of A, is under invasion, just name me one other country where 13 million people have transplanted themselves to, and then demanded to be treated as residents, with all the perks that entails, all the while maintaining their own heritage and then trying to force THEIR heritage on the country they immigrated to. Damn pressing one for English. If you want to speak Spanish, go back to Mexico.
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"Mexican border jumpers". I hate to beat around the bush. If you can find the same meaning in less syllables, feel free to use that instead. Last I heard, things in America were so bad they were jumping back to Mexico again. Is this true?
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