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Originally Posted by DanaC
I've always hated that term: illegal alien. It sounds dehumanising. More accurate would be 'illegal immigrant', regardless of what the legalise term might be. Their illegality does not rest in the fact that they are 'aliens', their illegality rests in the fact they have migrated without following the proper channels.
Illegal alien reduces them to their very alienness, the fact that they are foreign.
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Semantics IMHO. It doesn't change the fact they are here illegally, you know, broken our laws.