So you had migrants, people legitimately in the country who move around. Legal immigrants, people who move from one country to another in accordance with the country's immigration policies. And illegal immigrants, also referred to as illegal aliens, people who move into a country without permission, against the country's immigration laws. These designations have been very useful to us in the past, so why drop them? Why use the more legitimate, benign term "migrant" to cover all? Why muddy the waters? Who made this decision? The media? The governments? When you remove the term "immigrant", you essentially remove borders. If all are merely migrants, then there really are no borders.
We need to get back to plain talk, politically incorrect honesty. Call a spade a spade. Wait, was that racist? Oh well...
If you are in a country without legal permission, you are NOT a migrant. You are an illegal immigrant. Or for short, just plain illegal.
I smell Valerie Jarratt, and Cass Sunstein "nudging" the gullible public into blindly accepting the invasion...
ReplyDeleteHow can you tell the government is lying? They are telling you something...
Is there anything that TJ wasn't right about?
ReplyDeleteLiving within his means. He never could stay within his budget.
DeleteVery true. Mom's family were migrant farmworkers, people who moved around the country picking crops when ready for harvesting. They ranged from Utah to deep south Texas. MIGRANT back then was that their move was short term.
ReplyDeleteMigratory wildlife (birds) who fly south for the winter, back north for the summer. Notice how that works - they move back and forth. Will our new 'population' move back and forth ? Dunno, but I'm guessing the move will be as permanent.
Thanks Angel.
Call a spade a spade.
ReplyDeleteOr even a gorram shovel!
I read a piece a while back and darn it I can't even find the author, much less the article itself. Badly paraphrasing, it broke down as follows:
ReplyDeleteThe group of foreigners that moves to a country with the intention of assuming their culture and values are immigrants. These can safely be encouraged, no matter their race, culture, ethnicity or background.
The group of foreigners that moves to a country with the intention only of working then returning to their homeland, with no intention of assimilation, are migrants. They can be discouraged, tolerated or encouraged based on the needs of the host country.
The group of foreigners that comes to a country with the intention of remaking its culture and values and into their own are colonists. They need to be identified and denied at every turn.
Look at the current Middle Eastern refugee exodus to find almost entirely migrants and colonists, virtually no immigrants.
FormerFlyer
Bobby Jindal correctly states, "Immigration without assimilation is invasion."
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