Our good friends at the Center for Immigration Studies (check them out on Twitter) tweeted out a complaint about how Twitter censors the use of the term “illegal alien”. Brit Hume shot back at Twitter with a “knock it off’ type of retweet:

Yes, the phrase was used up until the left hijacked it to change it to illegal immigrant, undocumented citizen and many other pc terms. Changing the narrative is what the left does best:

HERITAGE reports in July of this year:

“Undocumented Immigrant” Is a Made-Up Term That Ignores the Law

According to FAIR:

Usage of “undocumented immigrant” first appeared in publishing no later than 1967, soon after the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 became law. However, former President Jimmy Carter helped popularize the term in the late 1970s when his administration ordered immigration employees to use “undocumented immigrant” instead of “illegal alien.”The New York Times also began using the term around the same time.

Arthur Milikh, associate director of The Heritage Foundation’s B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics, articulated the pro-amnesty lobby’s goal best in a 2017 report about bias in the press. “Whatever one’s view of immigration policy might be, the press, by relentlessly calling ‘illegal aliens’ ‘undocumented immigrants’ for years, has subtly altered public sympathies against would-be enforcers of the law,” he wrote.”

Here’s what CIS had to say about the term “illegal alien”:

1/ Twitter is not allowing us to promote any tweets including the phrase “illegal alien(s)”, citing it as Hateful Content. However, the phrase “illegal aliens” has been used in both federal law and by the Supreme Court.

2/ From Arizona v. United States (2012): “There is no reason Arizona cannot make it a state crime for a removable alien (or any illegal alien, for that matter) to remain present in Arizona.

3/ Title 8 of the United States Code, Section 1365: “The Attorney General shall reimburse a State for the costs incurred by the State for the imprisonment of any illegal alien or Cuban national who is convicted of a felony by such State”

4/ US District Court Judge Andrew Hanen, 2015: “There is a certain segment of the population that finds the phrase ‘illegal alien’ offensive. The court uses this term because it is the term used by the Supreme Court in its latest pronouncement pertaining to this area of the law.”
5/ Code of Federal Regulations: “Illegal alien means any person who is not lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States or who has not been authorized by the Attorney General to accept employment in the United States.”

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