Reply #26: Agree w/you as to the Corp politics of it all.

[Blaze Diem]

Its in line w/Bush's overall plan. It is ugly. For those who are driven from their country, and for those who are left by the wayside in the country they flee to.
I realize your resentment for the words "alien & illegals", & do respect that. However it has become a way to identify the subject of a message, more than anything derogatory. At least in my case. Like people who say 'blacks' in ref to African Americans, or Asians as a group from that part of the world, or those who refer to white skinned people as "those who won't do the work immigrants will." Which is a lie in itself. I know many who have done that kind of labor work all their life. Enough said about that.
OK, I find that an equally wrong and bigoted statement towards citizens and tho it makes my skin itch a bit too, I know what it meant in general.
"illegals and aliens" are to me, people who come to this country for whatever reason without the documentation to say they have made an effort to be here under legal channels.
I would not be offended if the ref were made to WHITE skinned people who are also here under illegal channels.
Its the behavior, not the race.
I believe you may not approve of the terms but you do know what is meant. I won't change the terminology I use as an in general reference to the message posted.
Expect me to continually use the two terms. To me it refers to people who are in this country with no documentation.
The undocumented ones.