They’re Called Illegals Because They Are Illegal
posted at 9:35 pm on September 29, 2010 by Cassy Fiano
[ Immigration ]
Open borders extremists have started a ridiculous new movement, asking people to sign a pledge promising to stop calling illegal immigrants… illegal. Check out this whiny new video which insists that there’s a new wave of anti-immigrant and anti-Latino violence, all stemming of course from the term “illegal”.
In typical liberal style, we are being asked to throw out truth and reality in favor of protecting people’s poor, fragile, feelings. The reality is that illegal immigration is a crime — therefore, people who commit the crime of coming here illegally are illegals. What a leap of logic, huh? We call them illegals because there is a massive difference between someone who comes here through legal channels, and someone who breaks the law and comes here illegally, leeching off of our law-abiding, hard-working citizens.
As for all of the supposed anti-immigrant and anti-Latino violence, I would be willing to bet any amount of money that it pales when compared to the number of crimes committed by illegal immigrants. Let’s just go down the list here, shall we? There’s Mara Salvatrucha, otherwise known as MS-13. It’s a gang that originated in Central America, but is now the fastest growing and most violent gang in the United States. Some sources have even called MS-13 the most dangerous gang in the world.
There was the murder of a group of college students in Newark who were ambushed by illegal aliens (and MS-13 members) and killed execution style. The male students were lined up against a wall and shot in the back of the head; the females were sexually assaulted, cut with machetes and knives, and shot. One of the women, Iofemi Hightower, had her face cut off. It took the mortician three days to put her face back together for identification purposes. Of the four students, one student, Natasha Aeriel, survived after being shot in the face.
There’s the recent murder of Arizona rancher Rob Krentz by an illegal immigrant.
Or how about the statistics that show that 12 Americans are killed daily by illegal immigrants?
And of course, let’s not forget that Phoenix is now the number two kidnapping capital — in the world.
This is just the tip of the iceberg, sadly. (You can find a list of crime victims of illegal aliens here.) It isn’t a stretch to assume that people who come to our country, willing to break laws, will then break further laws. Thanks to illegal immigrants, we have a lovely increase of drug trafficking, human trafficking, kidnapping, rape, murder, and gang activity in our country. But hey, let’s not call them illegal or anything! It might hurt their feelings, and it makes people attack Latinos!
The worst part, though, is when they compare calling an illegal immigrant illegal to calling a black person the n-word, or other racially motivated slurs for Latinos, Jews, etc. They’re equating slurs based on someone’s skin color, ethnicity, or religion to an action that someone commits. They are two completely different things! Someone cannot control their race or their gender or their ethnic background. Someone can control whether or not they break a law. But it doesn’t keep these open borders extremists from trying to manipulate emotions to get illegal immigrants — criminals — seen in a more positive light, as some kind of innocent victims. It’s a ridiculous play on emotions, and a complete lie at that.
Of course, that’s probably what makes it so appealing to liberals.
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But, don’t you see, if we were to offer them amnesty, treat them as guests, well, then, they’d stop committing crimes, don’t you see? (And if we stopped fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, al Qaeda would leave us alone, in turn.)
It’s all our own fault. Isn’t that obvious?
Steven Den Beste on September 29, 2010 at 9:52 PM
Besides everything else wrong with that little snippet of mush-headed propaganda, it’s got my mush-headed Representative in it at 0:04…..
cthulhu on September 29, 2010 at 9:54 PM
There’s no reason for us to be mean spirited. If calling them “illegal aliens” hurts their feelings, we can be the bigger people and change.
How about “criminal aliens”?
malclave on September 29, 2010 at 10:05 PM
Seems our exalted President is also under the illusion that there is no qualitative nor legal difference between legal and illegal immigrants.
Question for our President –
How many members of MS-13 , among other pretty vile and violent gangs are here legally, for example, having checked in with the US Consulate in Matamoros and having passed through Brownsville with all documentation in order, visas properly filed, and a sponsor and a job waiting for them upon arrival?
coldwarrior on September 29, 2010 at 10:06 PM
Curse you, Cassy Fiano, and your use of logic, facts, and the arcane knowledge of what words *mean*!
Merovign on September 29, 2010 at 10:25 PM
Lies are what the left is all about.
leereyno on September 29, 2010 at 10:43 PM
Hmm, maybe the next vote Congress can do is to ban using the word “illegal” and change it to “undocumented democrats”.
Tuari on September 29, 2010 at 11:15 PM
Maybe we should do this for all crimes like
Rapist = Non Consensual Procreation Enthusiast
Murderer = Unsolicited Euthanasia Administer
Robber = Wealth Redistributionist
SnakeintheGrass on September 30, 2010 at 6:19 AM
I object to the notion that committing a crime should be riskless. If you are here illegally, it’s just too bad for you if your employer cheats you out of your wages or you die of thirst because of where you commit your crime of entering this country. I strongly don’t believe in violence against anyone. But since we will have some violent thug youths given our high rate of children having children, I’d rather they attack illegals than innocent groups. If calling illegals “illegal” provoke our violent thug youths to turn their attention to the illegals, so be it. I do wonder if the word “illegal” has negative connotations to our violent thug youths.
thuja on September 30, 2010 at 8:42 AM
The big problem with illegals is, they are illegal. As in, non-US citizens who did not go through legal channels to be here—which means those who work are often working cash-only, and even all the taxes the illegals may inadvertently pay won’t pay for the services they are taking.
By taking legality out of the question, the idea is explicitly to make opposition to illegal immigration all about race.
Sekhmet on September 30, 2010 at 8:44 AM
Right on, right on, right on
cmsinaz on September 30, 2010 at 10:53 AM
Don’t call us teabaggers.
It hurts out feelings.
Dave Rywall on September 30, 2010 at 11:29 AM
Dave dear,
“They” can call us teabaggers all they want to – after all, that does make them the teabaggees….
TeresainFortWorth on September 30, 2010 at 11:55 AM
Drywall: False logic.
Someone who commits an illegal act can be called illegal, especially if the act they commit is used to describe them.
Thus, ‘murderer’ can be explained as an ‘illegal killer’.
Calling them ‘illegal immigrants’ is thus ‘one who immigrated illegally’.
On the other hand, members of the Tea Party movement don’t teabag, necessarily. (If they do, then you can call them a teabagger, I guess.) There is no logical basis to call them teabaggers.
The Tea Party do not call themselves that, and teabagging refers to a practice that they do not, necessarily, commit.
Illegal immigrants, at least for adults, exactly describes a choice they make.
In essence, calling an illegal immigrant such is a true statement. Calling a member of the Tea Party a teabagger is a false statement.
The difference should be obvious.
Scott H on September 30, 2010 at 12:10 PM
I was trying to draw a parallell between these idiots who don’t want to be called illegals and idiots who don’t want to be called teabaggers. Didn’t work. Oh well.
For the record, I think its stupid to crybaby that calling them “illegals” is somehow a not nice thing to do that hurts the country or people’s feelings or whatever the f.
The obly issues that should be talked about is: either say gtfo of America or you say okay stay and here’s a path to citizenship.
This wishy washy do nothing half-as*ed crap your country has been doing for years is weak and stupid.
Dave Rywall on September 30, 2010 at 1:30 PM
The Tea Party do not call themselves that, and teabagging refers to a practice that they do not, necessarily, commit.
Scott H on September 30, 2010 at 12:10 PM
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I’m sorry you’re in such denial about the name that they gave themselves that was splashed all over their stupid poorly spelled signs, T shirts and teabag earrings. They thought they were so clever until someone, embarrassed enough for them, informed them that the name they chose had another meaning. They certainly don’t call themselves teabaggers now, but it was their original stupid name. But nice try to rewrite history.
Dave Rywall on September 30, 2010 at 1:32 PM
Complete BS!! If that were the case I would not send our employees there without additional security and insurance support which we do when sending our people to dangerous places. This has been proved false for some time.
lexhamfox on September 30, 2010 at 1:35 PM
Well, if the U.S. treated all these illegal aliens like mexico treats THEIR illegals coming into their country from their southern border, we wouldn’t have much of a problem here! If the U.S. was building a fence on our southern border like mexico is doing on THEIR southern border(probably with funds from American taxpayers), we wouldn’t have a problem! I can not for the life of me understand why those who want to come to America legally are put behind those who come illegally.
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letget on September 30, 2010 at 1:51 PM
Alternative entry long-term residents.
Joe Mama on September 30, 2010 at 2:19 PM
Avid Drywall must be really happy now that prostitution is legal in Canada, especially for down and out MPs.
Dhuka on September 30, 2010 at 2:26 PM
Finally, something we can agree on. And better yet, that statement could be applied to a dozen other things we’re doing, from wars to the national ‘budget’.
Dark-Star on September 30, 2010 at 2:51 PM
Dave also supports the widespread use of the “N-word” to describe African-Americans.
malclave on September 30, 2010 at 4:28 PM
Or you enforce existing immigration laws, especially cracking down on employers that exploit illegal labor, and stop dangling the carrot in front of the horse.
The laws are already on the books, the Federal Government just has to enforce them. Which they don’t.
uknowmorethanme on October 1, 2010 at 12:45 AM
I don’t have a problem with not using “illegal immigrant” as I think “immigration scofflaw” or “immigration cheater” would be more accurately pejorative.
kd6rxl on October 1, 2010 at 1:18 AM
Any discussion of an issue is not complete until we hear form our “N*******r to the North”, Canuckistan.
That’s “neighbor” for you in the Provinces. But feel free to insert any N-word you want, it’s all equally relative.
jamie gumm on October 1, 2010 at 9:53 AM
Don’t call us teabaggers.
It hurts out feelings.
Dave Rywall on September 30, 2010 at 11:29 AM
Dave also supports the widespread use of the “N-word” to describe African-Americans.
malclave on September 30, 2010 at 4:28 PM
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ha ha look the a*shole made a funny
Dave Rywall on October 1, 2010 at 10:11 AM
Or you enforce existing immigration laws, especially cracking down on employers that exploit illegal labor, and stop dangling the carrot in front of the horse.
The laws are already on the books, the Federal Government just has to enforce them. Which they don’t.
uknowmorethanme on October 1, 2010 at 12:45 AM
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The incompetence and lack of will are mind boggling.
Dave Rywall on October 1, 2010 at 10:12 AM
Well said.
But people who engage in that sort of slurring of common sense will never acknowledge that logic.
I’ve written the very same thing time and time again to no avail: proponents of amnesty for illegal aliens and of illegal immigration/open borders NEED that type of nonsense/illogic in order to promote their illogic.
Illegal immigration is behavior.
Race, gender, ethnicity are inherent. One doesn’t “forethink” or predetermine what race, ethnicity or gender they will be born into.
Illegal immigration is premeditated, decided, determined by choice and thought by an individual. They engage in that behavior because they’ve decided to do so, to defy and violate laws because they’re irresponsible to those laws.
The ONLY “logic” that can even tenuously be strung together as to illegal aliens – as equivalent with race, ethnicity, WOULD BE IF someone “believes’ that their race or ethnicity (or both) somehow compels them to illegal behaviors, that they are *somehow* driven to violate the laws of the U.S. by way of some inherent biology: their race/ethnicity compels them to engage in illegal activities.
I don’t think the latter (above, last paragraph ^^). I’m just saying that the only possible “logic” in that illogic is that, above: their “race/ethnicity made them do it”.
Which would lead eventually to the conclusion that, say, “all Hispanics (since Hispanics are the key ethnicity in this issue, per the video and statistics as to who by majority comprise most illegal aliens in the U.S. today) engage in illegal immigration because they are driven to do so by their biology.”
There’s no logic in any arguement that supports or promotes this stupid and cruel campaign to blame the U.S. for expecting laws to be minded.
Lourdes on October 1, 2010 at 8:30 PM
That’s it. This is an effort to humiliate the U.S. yet again. IF you’re an American citizen and want a lawful society in general, you’re “bad” according to this nonsense by proponents of amnesty for illegal aliens and illegal immigration.
Lourdes on October 1, 2010 at 8:33 PM
“Criminal aliens” works, too.
BUT, “illegal aliens” is what’s in our U.S. Constitution.
The term, “illegal aliens” is how the U.S. Constitution defines those people who are present in the U.S. without any legal context to be here.
Let’s hear it for our Constitution.
Lourdes on October 1, 2010 at 8:35 PM