In an effort to “inform” and “sensitize” people to the harm these phases may be causing, the DC of the SPJ is asking their brother and sister journalists to instead utilize such phrases as “undocumented workers” or “undocumented aliens.”
Now for someone who sat through too many journalism classes back in college, I was under the impression that the goals of most journalists was to deliver the truth…you remember, the truth; a verified or indisputable fact.
Let’s see; Illegal…forbidden by law; unlawful; illicit. Last I checked, people who enter the United States without the consent of the U.S. Government, are here unlawfully, illicitly…or gee, illegally. So those journalist who properly describe people who are not lawfully in this country, are indeed here illegally. That goes for people who unlawfully enter the country from more than just Mexico, which makes me wonder why the painfully politically correct journalists of the SPJ are stereotyping illegal aliens as being only of Hispanic or Latino origin?
Let’s call the SPJ what they really are, a gaggle of press secretaries for politically correct liberals! Calling people who break the law to enter this country undocumented workers is the equivalent calling the neighborhood pot seller an “undocumented” pharmacist.
