Citations:illegal immigrant

English citations of illegal immigrant

• 1993 August 29, Roger E. Hernandez, “Of Labels: The Good, The Bad And Ugly”, in Ocala Star-Banner (FL):

  "physically challenged," for in stance, is a silly euphemism that avoids reality. ... So is "illegal immigrant". All who come to one country from another are immigrants; those who do not enter in accordance with the law are illegal immigrants. Simple. Straightforward. Good. This is different from "illegal alien", a contemptuous term I do not use. Ugly. But neither do I use "undocumented worker," which is what hypersensitive Hispanics would foist on us all. Bad.

• 2005 June 16, Cal Thomas, “Stop Illegal Immigration”, in Reading Eagle (PA):

  foreign-born population, a politically correct euphemism for illegal aliens. ... I'm going to let an illegal immigrant who I don't know from Adam just walk away?

• 2006 March 29, Thomas Sowell, “Stop Immigration Rhetoric”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

  We can't even call illegal immigrants "illegal immigrants". The politically correct evasion is "undocumented workers".

• 2013 September 2, Katherine Timpf, “UCLA student government looks to ban term ‘illegal immigrant’”, in Campus Reform:

  The undergraduate student government at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday calling for the end of the use of the phrase “illegal immigrant,” saying it violates human rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. / “The racially derogatory I-word endangers basic human rights including the presumption of innocence and the right to due process guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution,” the resolution states. / The resolution came in response to undocumented students who had “expressed their concerns and fear with the recent appointment of Janet Napolitano, former US Secretary of Homeland Security,” as the new University of California president.