I’m sorry that I missed this yesterday:
Inventing illegal immigration.
May 6, 2008 in this day by eric
On this day in 1882, the US adopted a law including these provisions:
Whereas, in the opinion ofthe Government of the United States the coming of Chinese laborers to this country endangers the good order of certain localities within the territory [...]
The words we use influence people and often reveal our biases and may be even engender a previously non-existing bias into our brain. Hence, the reason I use the term undocumented migrant as opposed to illegal immigrant. It is because we are debating the line in the law, so referring to the legal status of [...]
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