Comment on 20 states sue Biden admin over illegals

• FfaerieOxide@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  you missed the word sometimes.

  Can you explain how referring to a human being as "an illegal" can ever not be derogatory? 🤔

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  • jimbolauski@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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    • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Easy it is a label to describe immigration 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.

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      • jimbolauski@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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    • ChokingHazard63@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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      • jimbolauski@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Illegals is just shortened illegal immigrant, just like temporary nonimigrant workers are called migrants. The negative connotation is yours.

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