Illegal By Any Other Name.

   I am constantly,  amazed at just how far the liberal media and the press is willing  to go just to be considered politically correct.It now seems that the Associated Press, has decided in there infinite wisdom, that the term illegal alien will no longer be used when describing America's uninvited guest. Apparently, those persons who are in this country without the benefit of proper documentation are now to be referred to as just that  persons,  without documentation. the Associated  Press, seems to think that calling someone an illegal alien is something of a personal insult because this particular term some how dehumanizes an individual. Tell that to the many Italian immigrants who arrived in this country in the early part of the twentieth century and were unable to secure proper documentation such persons were often called a WOP  the term WOP meant a person who was in this country WOP, with out papers that is to say they were residing in this county illegally because they were without the legal documentation which would allow them to be here. Therefore just as a point of reference I am not at all sure that the term undocumented resident is any less dehumanizing or insulting.
    I have considered this semantic dilemma and have concluded that there must be further changes made when describing persons who find themselves in illegal circumstances.Think about it if a person fails to make their mortgage payments particularly after three months the bank who is providing the mortgage loan has the right if they choose to do so, to begin foreclosure proceedings because a person who is attempts to reside in a house without bothering to make consistent monthly mortgage payments is a person who is living in a house illegally perhaps they should be called people living in a house without proper money denominations yeah, that sounds much less dehumanizing. The next time some one's drivers license is found to have expired the police should not charge  them with illegally operating a motor  vehicle in stead these persons should be refereed to as people with proper vehicle operating documentation yeah, that sounds a lot less dehumanizing.
   The point is simply this if you are from another country you can be called an alien and if you managed to sneak into this country without bothering to secure the proper documentation then you are what has been comely called up to now an illegal alien. I don't call that term dehumanizing I just call it an accurate description of someone who enjoys living in this country but is not willing to even attempt to go through the legal process to do so. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, and she stated that she refuses to play vocabulary games and she  has no problem with the term illegal alien. I don't often agree with miss Napolitano, but I agree with her in this particular instance in other words, the act of being in this country with proper documentation is illegal by any other name. As always, my friends, these thoughts remain, just some words to think on.