Keep it real - do not change the definitions. From San Antonio Current:
Republicans Force the Library of Congress to Keep Saying "Illegal Alien"
Republicans in Washington D.C. have taken an unusual interest in the Library of Congress' day-to-day business lately.
For the first time in history, conservatives hijacked a legislative appropriations bill to stop the Library of Congress from abandoning the term "illegal alien" from how it catalogs the 162 million-item collection it manages.
Texas Congressman Joaquin Castro attempted to make an amendment to the legislation allowing the Library of Congress to make the change, but it failed to gain traction in the Republican-dominated House.
And a bit more:
Thursday, Castro forced legislation he proposed earlier this year called the Correcting Hurtful and Alienating Names in Government Expression (CHANGE) Act, which would have removed every instance of the terms "alien" and "illegal alien" from federal law, replacing them with "foreign national" and "undocumented foreign national," to a vote. Republicans, however, overwhelmingly defeated the measure.
Don't want to hurt their widdle feeeeelings. Go cry me a river...
Words matter. Context matters. Illegals are not undocumented, they are illegal and no quantity of political duckspeak will change this fact.
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