What Name To Call Those Who Illegally Cross Borders

The illegal immigrant question is big today in most wealthy nations. That is, there is debate about whether open borders is a good or bad idea. I think if you ask most Western Europeans, who opened there's to millions of illegal immigrants to so-called "refugees" from the Mid East and Northern Africa, they would mostly argue against it. The European culture and safety of Europeans from terrorism , the welfare expansion there after the flood started has changed m any minds. But what obscures the issue is language. That is, the vocabulary that has been invented for one who breaks into a country without permission , claims the right to stay and resists removal.

In this country if one calls an illegal alien (the U.S. government's own official term for people in the U.S. illegally) an "illegal immigrant" he or she will immediately know whether the other party in the debate favors open borders and illegal entries or does not. "Illegal immigrants" is regarded as a "racist"" term by proponents of open borders. I find that odd. Yet  because so many terms have been invented by the proponents (to hide the fact that the entrant is here illegally) that everyone here is confused by the terminology used to label those illegals. Here are some of the ways a person who is breaking and entering into a country are defined by both proponents and opponents of open borders.

They are said to be: alien absconders, alien residents, asylum applicants, border crossers, border jumpers, entrants, foreign nationals, foreign born newcomers, guest workers, illegal border crossers, illegal entrants, illegal newcomers, illegal residents, migrant workers, newcomers, out-of-status migrant, paperless immigrant, residents, Undocumented Alien, unauthorized workers, under-served population, undocumented,undocumented citizens, undocumented foreigners, undocumented immigrants, undocumented workers, and visa over-stayers. There's more. But you should get the idea.

Language is meant to change slowly and naturally, not by fiat to create truths out of falsity. When a few change the language to impose their belief in others the devious wins over the straight-forward.  When ever I am in a debate (I oppose open borders on the lack of fairness and the non benefit to the country basis) I to ask the user of the euphemism whether they mean legal or illegal. The open border people will most often refuse to do that, given they want the subject defined on their own terms before discussing the legality and necessity of it.

The irony of the Illegal document person is they most often have many documents, false ones created to hide the fact that they are not legally in the country they occupy. The official definition of an immigrant to the U.S. that is used by the federal government is  "An alien who has been granted the right by the USCIS to reside permanently in the United States and to work without restrictions in the United States."  It's clear but does not make room for someone breaking and entering.

Thus, new evasive terms for illegal immigration are created and championed by the advocates of illegality. I suspect the United States will never come to terms with the 10-20 million or so illegal immigrants currently here until it agrees on a name for them. But then, that's what advocates of open borders want.