The Department of Justice (DOJ), led by Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, America’s most racist Keebler elf, reportedly wants U.S. attorneys offices to refer to immigrants who are unauthorized to be in the U.S. not as “undocumented,” but instead the pejorative “illegal aliens.”
"The word 'undocumented' is not based in US code, and should not be used to describe someone's illegal presence in the country," the email, obtained by CNN, reportedly states. “But the referenced code does not include the word ‘illegal,’ either” Colorlines reports. Not to mention that “shit hole countries”, “bad hombres,” and “animal” aren’t in U.S. code either, but that’s not stopping the president from using those words to belittle and attack America’s immigrant population.
What truly is shit, is the bullshit claim that this administration has any respect whatsoever for following norms and laws. What the administration wants is ways to make it easier to round up, detain and deport people of color, and one of the immediate ways to do that is by dehumanizing them with words, including “illegal,” which has its roots in the persecution of Jewish people during World War II.
“The term ‘illegal immigrant’ was first used in 1939 as a slur by the British toward Jews who were fleeing the Nazis and entering Palestine without authorization,” CNN reported in 2012. “Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel aptly said that ‘no human being is illegal.’”
Major news outlets have made progress in ceasing to use this word, but clearly some still need the lesson today. "Illegals is not a noun,” journalist Maria Hinojosa famously told Donald Trump sycophant Steve Cortes in 2016, after he referred to immigrants using the pejorative. “What you can do is say an immigrant living illegally or an immigrant living without papers or without documents in this country. But what you cannot do is to label the person illegal."
Hinojosa went on to say that she didn’t learn that "from some radical Latino or Latina studies professor when I was a college student. I learned it from Elie Wiesel, who survived the Holocaust, who said, 'you know what? The first thing they did was that they declared the Jews to be an illegal people.'" Sessions and Trump know what they’re doing when they chose their words, and it’s not to follow the U.S. code, it’s to follow their white supremacy radicalism.