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Drop the I Word

Why shouldn't I call undocumented immigrants "illegals"?


:pointr:It's dehumanizing. the i-word is shorthand for other harmful racially charged terms that dehumanize people. The i-word promotes violence and discrimination. It sends the message that immigrants are sub-human and undeserving.
:pointr:It's racially charged. Use of the i-word affects attitudes toward immigrants and non-immigrants alike, most often toward people of African, Asian, and Latin American descent. The discriminatory message is not explicit, but hidden, or racially coded.
:pointr:It's inaccurate legally and confuses the debate. Immigration judges and attorneys don't use the i-word. Journalists who treat all transgressions as "alleged," - a tenet of ethical and professional journalism, don't use it either. The i-word finds many people guilty before they are tried and ignores the fact that our laws are unjustly applied. Immigrants without documents are regularly hired as cheap, exploited labor with a limited ability to protect their own rights. No one else who benefits from the set up, including the employers who recruit and hire these migrants, is labeled this way.

The i-word is used to unfairly label and scapegoat people who are out of status due to a variety of systematic circumstances. For example, many people:

:bulletred: are brought to the country against their will

:bulletred: are brought to the country by employers who often exploit them for cheap labor

:bulletred:Fall out of status and overstay their VISAS because of school or employment

:bulletred:risk being killed in their country of origin due to political beliefs, religious beliefs, or sexual orientation

:bulletred:are affected by natural disasters and/or other reasons beyond their control

:bulletred:are forced by economics and harmful policies like NAFTA to leave their country to simply provide for their families

:bulletred:are on a backlog waiting years to get processed, even when they are eligible to get papers through a relative. Take a look at Reason.org's illustration of America's broken immigration and naturalization system.

Watch: Drop the I-Word. No Human Being is Illegal.



Let me get these comments out of the way so you don't have to leave them for me:
:pointr:"You're just a stupid liberal"
:pointr:"Liberals are liars"
:pointr:"Liberals are lyres" :lol:
:pointr:"Propaganda! Propaganda!"
:pointr:"What part of ILLEGAL don't you lefty idiots understand?!"
:pointr:"The indians didn't own the land legally, I'm not an illegal immigrant, shut the hell up!"
:pointr:"This is just more of that "politically correct" bullshit"
:pointr:"ILLEGAILLEGALILLEGAL"
:pointr:"DEY TAKIN DER JERBS!"
:pointr: etc.

Sorry for the uber long description. I know I've complained about it a few times before myself. Forgive me! :)


BG: from the Drop the I-Word campaign website
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I thought you were talking about "incest" until I read the description.