Personal Liberty – by Sam Rolley
Pro-immigration groups have successfully pressured the United States Library of Congress to remove the words “illegal” and “alien” from materials because the words are considered “pejorative” to people who enter the country illegally. The move will affect all U.S. libraries.
Fusion reported that the change was made in response to a group of illegal alien students at Dartmouth College: “If you visit your local library today to research undocumented immigrants, you’ll probably find the books are housed in a section with the subject heading “illegal aliens”—a term that immigrant-rights groups say is racially charged and dehumanizing. The nation’s leading news organizations, including this one, have banned the phrase unless it’s used in a quote. But soon that’s going to change, thanks to a group of undocumented students at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.”
“After seeing the dehumanizing word [illegal alien] so many times, I wondered if that’s how Dartmouth thought of undocumented students,” one of the students told Fusion.
The group of students petitioned the college to alter its subject headings, which are furnished by the U.S. Library of Congress. So librarians at the school teamed up with the group of illegal immigrant students to make the nation’s library change its headings.
And it worked.
“In response to constituent requests, the Policy and Standards Division of the Library of Congress, which maintains Library of Congress Subject Headings, has thoroughly examined and discussed the status of the headings ‘Aliens’ and Illegal aliens.’ PSD has determined that the heading ‘Aliens’ should be revised to ‘Noncitizens.’ The heading ‘Illegal aliens’ will be cancelled and replaced by two headings, ‘Noncitizens’ and ‘Unauthorized immigration,’ which may be assigned together to describe resources about people who are in a country illegally,” said a statement from the Library of Congress.
As a consequence, libraries throughout North America that rely on records distributed by the Library of Congress will also be forced to adopt the new soft language when indexing information on illegal immigrants.
Semantic alternative: Unlawful Foreign Operative (UFO).
I got a word for them: CRIMINALS
You know what happens to illegals growing on someone else’s property? Nothing. Their deported and come back. If they work, they work under the table, pay no taxes, collect benefits, set up shop in illegal enterprises. Did I miss anything? It’s purposely set up this way. Not attacking them personally.
so it is now an “un-word”?
so, how does this now effect the laws defining what is illegal? does it mean now they are moot and nobody has to follow them? does this give the criminals free reign now? this effects so much more than immigration terminology…
Let’s burn a book too. While we’re at it anyways.
“The heading ‘Illegal aliens’ will be cancelled and replaced by two headings, ‘Noncitizens’ and ‘Unauthorized immigration,’”
Gee… I guess they couldn’t get “Undocumented migrant” put in. (sarcasm)
Unfrigginbelievable….
As if changing the wording is going to change the meaning.
Psychotic dumbasses!