Comment on 20 states sue Biden admin over illegals
jimbolauski@lemm.ee 8 months agoIn your rush to win the most outraged contest you missed the word sometimes.
Comment on 20 states sue Biden admin over illegals
jimbolauski@lemm.ee 8 months agoIn your rush to win the most outraged contest you missed the word sometimes.
FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 8 months ago
Can you explain how referring to a human being as "an illegal" can ever not be derogatory? 🤔
jimbolauski@lemm.ee 8 months ago
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.
FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 8 months ago
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.
jimbolauski@lemm.ee 8 months ago
It’s no different than calling a person a citizen. Your inability to understand the definition of illegal does not change its definition.
ChokingHazard63@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Nobody’s trying to say they aren’t illegal immigrants. But using derogatory terms is unnecessary and won’t bring a lot of people to your side.
jimbolauski@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Illegals is just shortened illegal immigrant, just like temporary nonimigrant workers are called migrants. The negative connotation is yours.