With the amount of misleading content you post you really do seem like someone that is being paid to sow discord.
Bossdog421 posted...
Divert! Throw back ridiculous arguments! Poke at someone else's character!
Anyways, you (or anyone else, really) would never refer to, say, someone who committed fraud or wage theft as "an illegal." No one describes Martha Stewart as "an illegal" for insider trading. We should stop to consider the ways in which our use of language reflects attitudes towards certain groups of people, and why only this particular violation of the law has earned such a label. The law itself just talks about "improper entry," or sometimes "unlawful entry."
And a large chunk of undocumented immigrants haven't even committed that offense; they've overstayed their visas, which is a civil, not criminal, offense.
What's the justification for referring to this group of people as "illegals" as opposed to any other group of offenders?