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Article Source: The L.A. Times
The L.A. Times' 1979 stylebook did advocate the use of "illegal aliens," calling it "the simplest term." However, by 1995, the ruling had changed to "illegal immigrant."
Assistant Managing Editor Henry Fuhrmann, who leads the newsroom's style committee, said "illegal immigrant" is "the preferred, neutral, unbiased term that will work in almost all uses."
So we have established - through their own admission here - that the Times and the left-leaning media in general have changed the language of immigration so as to improve the image of people who sneak into the country illegally. The LEGAL term for someone who is not a citizen of the United States is "alien." If they are here illegally, their status is "illegal alien."
Go check the federal codes on immigration and citizenship. It's not a slur. It's the law.
The only thing negative is the status itself, which is created solely by the alien himself and not by the terminology. The language used by this paper and others is bogus, contrived, and rooted in a political agenda.
"illegal immigrant" is "the preferred, neutral, unbiased term that will work in almost all uses."
I guess just inventing a term so as to make a group of people appear more sympathetic isn't considered "unbiased." At least we finally got the paper to admit it. Too bad they don't see the total lack of integrity in their method.
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