Why do politicians use term "illegal immigrants"?

Question

Is this NOT an oxymoron? What is "illegal" about an immigrant? Are you buying into this brainwashing hoax terminology by your politicians?

Answer 1

No,definitely not ... they are illegal aliens ... and from what I can gather, not even interested in assimilating or becoming citizens ... but heck, nowadays when you're supposed to be so politically correct, I suppose you're meant to pussyfoot around.... sickening ....

Answer 2

The word immigrant does not imply legality or illegality, just that someone moved from their home land into this one. It literally means "Move in". They can migrate legally, with visas and green cards, or illegally by coming here without visas. Personally, I think politicians are creating a problem where there really isn't one, this situation has not changed in many years, (this is their "rile the voters up" issue this year, I bet they drop it like a hot potato the day after the election, just like the whole 'Gay Marriage' thing), but "illegal immigrant' is not an oxymoron.

Answer 3

It is an oxymoron. An immigrant, by legal definition, is legally in the country.

"Illegal alien" is the proper descriptive term although "illegal immigrant" has been misused for so long that it is being adopted as correct terminology.

I wouldn't call use of the term a hoax, but they are certainly uninformed. Nothing new about that, eh??

Answer 4

it's simple..."illegal immigrant" means someone who enters into a country without permission. it's a matter of understanding the terminology and not considered "brainwashing hoax terminology". try to do some more research on the term "illegal immigrant".

Answer 5

You are too stupid to understand a logical answer, but here goes...

Legal immigration is when a person goes through the proper channels in the US government to become a US citizen. This means learning English, being given a SS card, paying taxes, and many other things that your little brain doesn't understand.

ILLEGAL ALIEN is the proper term. Or possibly a guest worker who might contribute to the workforce of America, but doesn't give anything back to the American system. Meanwhile, all of the LEGAL residents have to pay billions of dollars in tax revenue to make up for the losses that ILLEGAL aliens cause. (Crime, welfare, no taxes, send their money back to mexico, and too many other problems to list)

Answer 6

It is funny.

They agree these are not 'undocumented workers'.

And the laws they draft call them illegal aliens. This is true whether the laws are pro-illegal alien laws like the Dream Act to give them all in state tuition and qualify them for federal grants (part of the Senate Immigration Bill), or are enforcement bills.

However they are calling them illegal immigrants to the press.

I guess that is the term I usually use too, but the legally correct one is illegal aliens.

Answer 7

Illegal immigrants are people who don't come here through the legal channels. They just sneak over the border and get on welfare and live 500 to a trailer and don't know how to read road signs, yet they drive a car.

Legal immigrants are those who applied for visas, got jobs, lived like Americans and possibly are taking steps to become citizens, like learning the language and not living off social services.

Answer 8

In the United States, as in most civilized countries, immigration is limited and controlled by law. Illegal immigrants are those who enter a country without legal permission.

There is no hoax. If you've ever lived in the southwest, and are surrounded by these illegals you'll know that it is no haox.

Answer 9

Illegal Immigrants.

Illegal - il·le·gal

adj.
Prohibited by law.
Prohibited by official rules: an illegal pass in football.
Unacceptable to or not performable by a computer: an illegal operation.

n.
An illegal immigrant. (look even dictionary.com uses this as an example!)

immigrant -
im·mi·grant
n.
A person who leaves one country to settle permanently in another.
A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.

Answer 10

You know, you're right... Immigrants are those people from other countries who have entered our country legally, with all the correct paperwork and approvals and visas and all that stuff... These are the ones who should be here.

The ones that the newspapers and politicians refer to as "Illegal Immigrants" are actually CRIMINALS who should be rounded up and sent back to where they came from.

Answer 11

Because it's illegal for someone to immigrate to America without going through the paperwork and what not.