Many americans are against illegal immigration,and they are very vocal about it.I've heard every name illegals are called when the american feels unjustified.Pretty much everything from ******* to beaner(?).And the one most feel is okay:Illegal alien.DO we have any legal aliens?Never met an alien,but eventually the illegal hispanic population have become them.
So anyway,why is it that illegal immigrants are called aliens?
2006-09-06 08:03:21 · 22 answers · asked by Fluttery 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Sorry,Mendi,I wasn't intending to step on feelings.
And this is just a question,cause it pisses me off when I hear the term illegal alien.
2006-09-06 08:14:10 · update #1
Yeah, whatever happened to the word HUMAN BEING! What we are saying when we say "illegal alien" is that a person not born in the US is not a human!
I think its wrong to call people aliens :(
2006-09-06 08:08:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 6⤋
No illegal aliens do not come from Mars, they come from other countries illegally. Which means they are breaking the Law.
Noun
an illegal alien
A person who is within the boundaries of a political state without that government's authorization; a national of another country who has entered or stayed without permission.
ille'gal al'ien
1. a foreigner who has entered or resides in a country unlawfully or without the country's authorization.
2. a foreigner who enters the U.S. without an entry or immigrant visa, esp. a person who crosses the border by avoiding inspection or who overstays the period of time allowed as a visitor, tourist, or businessperson. Cf. resident alien. Also called ille'gal im'migrant.
2006-09-06 16:06:13 · answer #2 · answered by Hold em Rox 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You get mad at the word illegal alien. Then the simple solution is to have them all get in line and apply for their resident card. I'm an American of Mexican decent and I also hear the Illegals and the legal ones say. Los pichi gringos, los hueros, los gabachos. los mallites (the ******)Los pochos (U.S born Mexicans.) and so much more. So what can I do? Nothing let them talk it only shows how ignorant they are. Oh Aliens do come from Mars but its from Marzlatan, Mexico.
2006-09-06 15:27:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Alien has many meanings. If you think about it, every term used in the English language may be offensive to someone. You happen to be sensitive to the word 'alien' which I understand. Don't let it get you blood pressure up. A word is not worth that.
2006-09-06 15:19:05 · answer #4 · answered by Made in America 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
'Alien' meant citizen of a foreign state before it was ever borrowed to mean a little green man from Mars. It is throughout our laws and is used by pro-illegals when they are drafting proposed laws to give illegal aliens benefits, for example.
2006-09-06 16:43:24 · answer #5 · answered by DAR 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's just a term synonymous with foreign, not from here. Regardless of how many claim to be indiginous, the part of them that is indiginous is only indiginous to southern Mexico and central America. Alien meant foreigner before it meant martian.
2006-09-06 15:21:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Definition of alien:
* foreigner: a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
* stranger: anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
* transfer property or ownership; "The will aliened the property to the heirs"
* not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something; "an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism"; "the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper"; "jealousy is foreign to her nature"
* being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "exotic cuisine"
* extraterrestrial being: a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere
* estrange: arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness; "She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious"
2006-09-06 15:05:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
alien means non national and since they have snuck across instead of going thru customs then its defined as illegal entry so illegal alien is the proper term whether you like it or not if the shoe fits
2006-09-06 23:06:12 · answer #8 · answered by Dan B 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think they try to make a comparison between aliens and illegal inmigrants. Aliens are not from earth, they are from other planets, so they are strangers to the planet earth. They are not from here so they don't belong here. This is the same with the illegal inmigrants. They are not from an specified country, solo legally they don't belong there.
2006-09-06 15:07:36 · answer #9 · answered by chmv2005 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
i can already tell that you are a 13 year old idiot with no idea of what is going on around her, alien doesn't mean "outer space alien" alien is someone that is foreign, or from another country.
2006-09-06 15:12:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
becuase aliens come from a diffrent planet but we as being humans we are like alians becuase we come from another country like aliens they from somewere else
2006-09-06 15:37:12 · answer #11 · answered by angel 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋