National Association of Hispanic Journalists: DO NOT call an illegal alien an illegal alien!
NAHJ Urges News Media to Stop Using Dehumanizing Terms When Covering Immigration
Calls for stopping the use of âillegalsâ as a noun, curbing the phrase âillegal alienâ
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Joseph Torres (202) 662-7143; Daniela Montalvo (202) 662-7152
Washington, D.C. — As protesters march in the streets and debate intensifies in Congress over how to fix the nationâs immigration laws, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists calls on our nationâs news media to use accurate terminology in its coverage of immigration and to stop dehumanizing undocumented immigrants.
NAHJ is concerned with the increasing use of pejorative terms to describe the estimated 11 million undocumented people living in the United States. NAHJ is particularly troubled with the growing trend of the news media to use the word âillegalsâ as a noun, shorthand for “illegal aliens”. Using the word in this way is grammatically incorrect and crosses the line by criminalizing the person, not the action they are purported to have committed. NAHJ calls on the media to never use âillegalsâ in headlines.
In addition, the association has always denounced the use of the degrading terms âalienâ and âillegal alienâ to describe undocumented immigrants because it casts them as adverse, strange beings, inhuman outsiders who come to the U.S. with questionable motivations. âAliensâ is a bureaucratic term that should be avoided unless used in a quote.
Lots more HERE.
Note from D.A. – illegal aliens have documents: Either stolen from Americans or fraudulent/forged documents…or the Mexican matricula consular card. How is that “undocumented”?
Some far far lefties don’t even want you to call illegal aliens “illegal immigrants”!.
Wikipedia on matricula consular ID HERE:Security issues
U.S. law enforcement officials also cite that MatrĂcula Consular cards are issued by Mexican Consulate without checking the authenticity of the applicant’s supporting documentation. Mexican nationals often provide a birth certificate to Mexican Consulates in order to obtain the MatrĂcula Consular card. Mexican birth certificates are easily forged and can be purchased on the black market for a few dollars also American birth certificates as well.
U.S. Federal and local drug enforcement agents have discovered that numerous illegal alien, Mexican national narcotics traffickers obtain MatrĂcula Consular cards under the names of aliases and that their use in the United States presents the U.S. with a serious criminal threat.[5]
D.A. King, an anti-illegal immigration activist and a U.S. citizen, obtained three MatrĂculas with his picture, and widely publicized one of them across the internet to illustrate the problems he sees with the document. The card in question bears the name “Al Qaida Gonzalez.”[6]
Bruce DeCell, a retired New York City police officer who lost a son-in-law in 9/11, obtained a forged MatrĂcula with his name, and successfully used it as identification to enter the headquarters of the Department of Homeland Security. DeCell’s card, which he obtained from a street vendor in California, gives his address as “123 Fraud Blvd.” in “Staton Island”, New York, and his birthplace as “Tijiuna”, B.C.[7]