🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:37:12 -0600, Jose@Casa_Mierda wrote:

>Media Matters today is taking Fox News to task for the network's persistent 
>use of the word "illegals" as shorthand for illegal immigrants.
>
>The media watchdog organization cited this on-screen text during today's 
>edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends: "Estimates: 980,000 illegals living in FL."
>
>Media Matters described Fox News' pattern of using "illegals" as a pejorative 
>and unprofessional way to refer to immigrants in the United States without legal status.
>
>Says Media Matters in a statement:
>
>Prominent journalists' associations have denounced the use of the term "illegals" 
>by the news media, noting that the term "criminaliz[es] the person, not the action," 
>and "skew[s] the public debate on immigration issues."
>
>http://blogs.chron.com/immigration/archives/2010/02/post_344.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+houstonchronicle%2Fimmigration+%28NewsWatch%3A+Immigration%29

If some folks want something more scientific-sounding how about this:

"mestizo parasitosis rodenta";

 with an apology to many useful four-footed rodents.

striker