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Calling an illegal immigrant an "undocumented immigrant" is like calling someone who is breaking and entering into your home an "undocumented tenant".
This is coming from a person who believes illegal immigrants are not worth our time or money to prevent and, if we werent a welfare state, I'd be pushing for open borders.
If one believes the most important aspect of communities is private property and rent-seeking, then such a person would obviously object to squatters, but for such a person the entire notion of community is secondary to seeing power at other's expense.
Of course, this metaphor completely falls apart in terms of migration because the US is not private property and migrants tend to hold jobs and pay rent and taxes. The tax monies collected from all migrants, including undocumented ones, exceeds the amount of tax money allocated to programs that benefit them.
This ideology has a name and I'm afraid it's extremely unflattering.
I'd like to ask you to consider why you want to use dehumanising words to refer to migrants. Also, real numbers show migrants are helping to making funds available to a welfare state (such as it exists). You may also want to consider why you believe otherwise. What made this lie compelling? What did it make you feel emotionally? What do you feel when you think about migration? Who do you picture when you think of an undocumented migrant and what makes you want to put that person in their place?
@celesteh Simple
first I dont see it as dehumanizing, nor did I when it was used to describe me, nor does any of my friends who are illegal immigrants.
second I use it because it is a more accurate term than the alternative and I generally find the euphemism treadmill to be a waste of energy and causes more conflict than good in most cases.
You seem to be under the very faulty impression I somehow dont want migrants, even illegal ones. As I stated in my opening remarks, I do not feel we should waste any real money on deporting illegal immigrants,a nd I would even support completely open borders if it werent for the fact that welfare would make that impractical.
