http://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2021/04/19/biden-administration-finally-tackles-the-border-crisis-head-on-by-unveiling-new-official-euphemisms-concerning-illegal-immigrants/
The border crisis may be growing exponentially worse with each passing day, but that doesn’t mean that the Biden administration isn’t working diligently on fixing it.
Actually, in this case, that’s exactly what it means. The Biden administration’s border policies directly resulted in what we’re seeing at the southern border right now, but instead of tackling the migrant surges that have detention facilities grossly overcrowded, they’re tackling what they seem to think is the real problem: language. Specifically, the language regarding illegal immigration:
Maria Sacchetti ~ SCOOP: ICE, CBP to stop using ‘illegal alien’ and ‘assimilation’ under new Biden administration order.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/illegal-alien-assimilation/2021/04/19/9a2f878e-9ebc-11eb-b7a8-014b14aeb9e4_story.html
Maria Sacchetti ~ OLD--->NEW in memos
Alien--->noncitizen or migrant
Alienage--->Noncitizenship
Undocumented alien--->Undocumented noncitizen/undocumented individual
Unaccompanied alien children--->unaccompanied noncitizen children
Illegal alien--->Undocumented noncitizen/individual
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Maria Sacchetti ~ Assimilation--->Integration, civic integration
Immigrant assimilation--->Immigrant integration
Refugee assimilation --->Refugee integration
Great. This solves absolutely nothing, but at least the administration can feel good about not offending people’s delicate verbal sensibilities.
TheLastUprising - Real Climate Action Now. ~ We've changed the words, so everything's fine now!
Brit Hume ~ New official euphemisms.
Steve Krakauer ~ Well that should fix the border crisis ...
Guy Benson ~ Huge crisis and this is what they’re doing.
Mark Walls ~ We are more worried about language that may be offensive than addressing the actual problem with our borders and immigration system.
Personally, we thought actively and deliberately enticing people to illegally immigrate to this country and then sticking them in overcrowded detention facilities is a lot more offensive than “unaccompanied alien children” — who, by the way, are the most innocent victims who suffer the most — but we’re old-fashioned like that.
Mo Mo ~ People spend all their time dictating the terms of verbal engagement and don't care at all about the underlying substance of the debate. This is just one example.
Tom Cotton ~ We use the term 'illegal alien' because they're here illegally.
This kind of weakness and obsession with political correctness is why we're having a crisis on the border in the first place.
Noah Rothman ~ Assimilation isn't a racialist concept or an ignoble goal outside of extremely insular activist communities. It is the objective of every successful immigrant group.
#GoTo your mind palace ~ So they’re making a symbolic gesture to deflect from the fact kids are still locked in cages? Got it.
Such decisive action from Joe Biden et al.
Dobro ~ Changing words do not change reality.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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