This story from the WaPost details the problems faced by folks who entered this country illegally when they try to obtain help from US Law Enforcement to intercede in efforts to free other relatives--taken hostage while attempting to enter the US illegally.
Lots to bite into here, but the one that really got to me was the term "undocumented residents". Where did this come from? I know illegal alien is considered non-PC, so that's how we got "undocumented aliens". Well, I guess that's too un-PC, and so we'll just extend "residence" to them and call them undocumented residents.
Language matters.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
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- Unaccounted for tax beneficiaries
- Presence is 9/10ths the law
- Pre-citizenship residents
- Squattizens
- Sooners
Acornians or Residents of an Undoumented and unorganized Community
Reminds me of when the media referred to criminal Rodney King as "motorist Rodney King"...yeah, and Bonnie and Clyde were "bank customers"
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