Last month, the administration said the U.S. will let up to 360,000 people per year enter the country from four countries. A lawsuit filed Tuesday claims the policy is illegal.
Easy it is a label to describe immigration status, like citizen, permanent resident, temporary nonimigrant workers (migrant),…
Immigrating into a country illegally means that person is guess what an illegal immigrant or illegal for short. Your negative views of the word illegal don’t change their status.
Undocumented people may immigrate in a way some people do not consider to be “legal” but they themselves are not illegal therefore “illegals” is a nonsense term.
Illegals is just shortened illegal immigrant, just like temporary nonimigrant workers are called migrants.
They are migrants because they migrate. They aren’t “illegals” because irrespective of the status of their presence according to those that claim dominion of the land they are on they are not themselves illegal.
Can you explain how referring to a human being as “an illegal” can ever not be derogatory? 🤔
Easy it is a label to describe immigration status, like citizen, permanent resident, temporary nonimigrant workers (migrant),…
Immigrating into a country illegally means that person is guess what an illegal immigrant or illegal for short. Your negative views of the word illegal don’t change their status.
It isn’t being used that way (to describe a status). It is being used to describe a person as “illegal”.
A person being documented or not by a group which claims political authority over a geographic area does not make that person illegal.
It’s no different than calling a person a citizen. Your inability to understand the definition of illegal does not change its definition.
A citizen is a thing a person can be. It’s also a noun.
“Illegal” is not a thing a person can be.
Actions can be against laws but humans cannot.
Illegal is short for illegal immigrant, many people are illegal immigrants.
Undocumented people may immigrate in a way some people do not consider to be “legal” but they themselves are not illegal therefore “illegals” is a nonsense term.
My truck is blue, I call it blue. Is blue a nonsense term?
Using an adjective as an adjective is a nonsense argument for asserting “using an adjective as a noun to refer to people is not dehumanizing”.
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Illegals is just shortened illegal immigrant, just like temporary nonimigrant workers are called migrants. The negative connotation is yours.
They are migrants because they migrate. They aren’t “illegals” because irrespective of the status of their presence according to those that claim dominion of the land they are on they are not themselves illegal.
They are illegal immigrants or illegal for short per the definition you were given but appear unable to comprehend.
But they aren’t illegal_s_ as that renders the phrase a reference to the people themselves and not their actions.
To refer to people as illegal is dehumanizing.
Just because you look down on a group of people doesn’t make the term to describe them dehumanizing.
Just because you can’t differenciate between a term for immigration status and the people with that status doesn’t change what the term means.
Doesn’t make it not dehumanizing—since it is—and it certainly doesn’t help your arguments it isn’t.
I don’t look down on the group. I look down on their actions. I don’t like criminal behavior.
They are in fact illegal.
Humans can’t be illegal.
Only actions humans take can be illegal.
Thats really getting into pedantics, and its just name calling. I swear, yall cared more about the term illegals than the lawsuit
I question if that view of yours extends to all slurs.
No person is illegal. Regardless what their immigration status might be.
Thats the term for their group, isnt it? Isnt it tiring to type out illegal immigrant every time?