I have a problem too, it should be illegal alien. They are in the country illegally and they haven’t gone through any proper process to be properly called an ‘immigrant’. ‘Undocumented’ is a ridiculous effort to remove the illegality from the action.
Via The Hill:
Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson got into a heated exchange over the term “illegal immigrant” on Wednesday during an interview with a conservative host.
Johnson said people should instead use the term “undocumented” when referring to people in the United States who have entered the country illegally or overstayed a visa.
“If you use the term illegal immigrants, that is very incendiary to our Hispanic population here in this country,” Johnson said during the interview with Townhall’s Guy Benson.
“Why’s that?” Benson asked.
“It just is,” Johnson, a former governor of New Mexico, responded. “Just so that you know. Just so that you know and you don’t have to use that term.”
Johnson is fighting to get to the 15 percent threshold in polls that would allow him to take part in the presidential debates. A number of polls show him with double-digit support.