Gary Johnson objects to the term "illegal immigrant," calls it "incendiary"

One issue that has consumed much of the 2016 cycle’s political oxygen is immigration, on which the Republican nominee has issued a series of controversial statements and proposals — and the Democratic nominee has vowed to go even further than President Obama in pursuing constitutionally-dubious executive actions if Congress fails to bend to her will. I asked Johnson about his immigration policies from the perspective of a border state governor (:30), and pressed him on his previously-stated support for Obama’s unilateral executive amnesty (6:45). Along the way, we also sparred over the term “illegal immigrant,” to which Johnson strenuously objected (4:20) as “incendiary” and offensive…