MoveOn's ridiculous attempt to ban words 'illegal immigrants'

Joseph Klein:
Just when you would think that the far Left Obama booster organization MoveOn.org could not get any more ridiculous, it sinks to ever lower levels of absurdity.  The latest example involves MoveOn’s push to render the phrase “illegal aliens” or “illegal immigrants” hate speech.
A video posted last week at MoveOn.org’s website charges that calling illegal immigrants “illegal” fits the definition of a hate crime and calls for the word “illegal” to be abolished when describing individuals entering the United States illegally.  They would prefer using adjectives such as “undocumented” immigrants or “unauthorized” immigrants.  That is sort of like calling a bank robber an unauthorized withdrawer. How about working to eliminate incentives for the illegal behavior itself rather than focus on banning its correct characterization?
“No human being is illegal,” intones MoveOn.org. True, but human beings can and do perform illegal acts.
 Words “sometimes kill,” MoveOn.org preaches.  Not really.  Human beings kill, including illegal immigrants.  Thousands of Americans have been killed by illegal immigrants since 9/11.“While crime is crime and the victims suffer equally whether the perpetrator is a citizen or illegal alien, what makes illegal alien crime so different is that the crime would have never happened if our government was doing its constitutionally mandated duty and enforcing immigration laws,” the group 9/11 Families for a Secure America correctly said in a press release. 
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There is much more.

I recently saw a proponent of this nonsense on the O'Reilly factor who could not explain what law they would enforce to deal with people entering the country illegally.  She just wanted to make a semantic argument.  The left's language police are more interested in controlling the dialog than in controlling the borders and doing something about people who come here illegally.

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