February 28, 2007

NOTE: PLEASE say if you DON'T want your name and/or email address published when sending VDARE email.

02/27/07 - A Reader Says That While One International Student Made A Bomb Threat, A Million International Students Are A Time Bomb

A Reader Notes A Florida Senator Wants To Make It  Illegal To Say Illegal

From: A Reader In Florida

If this bill succeeds, it is only fair that we redefine burglars as "re-cyclers," and murderers as "life-limitators." It is obvious that Latinos do not want equality; rather, their quest is for superiority. [Vdare.com note: Senator Wilson is an African-American, and so are most of the Caribbean immigrants in her district. No, wait, they're Afro-Caribbean, since, as illegals they're not American yet, or wait, they're…we give up.]

Bill would mandate nicer term for illegals

By Bill Cotterell, The (Fort Myers) News-Press, February 27, 2007

TALLAHASSEE— A state legislator whose district is home to thousands of Caribbean immigrants wants to ban the term "illegal alien" from the state's official documents.

"I personally find the word 'alien' offensive when applied to individuals, especially to children," said Sen. Frederica Wilson, D-Miami. "An alien to me is someone from out of space."

She has introduced a bill providing that: "A state agency or official may not use the term 'illegal alien' in an official document of the state." There would be no penalty for using the words.

In Miami-Dade County, Wilson said, "we don't say 'alien,' we say 'immigrant.'"

She said she encountered the situation when trying to pass a bill allowing children of foreigners to get in-state tuition at colleges and universities. Wilson, who directs a dropout prevention and education program in Miami, said she politely asks witnesses at public hearings on such issues not to use the term.

"There are students in our schools whose parents are trying to become citizens and we shouldn't label them," she said. "They are immigrants, through no fault of their own, not aliens."

Wilson said the first word isn't as bad as the second.

"'Illegal,' I can live with, but I like 'undocumented' better," she said.