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for fucks sake, there is no reason to assume that these people are moving here to stay.
so there is no reason to categorize them as immigrants.
there is no reason to think about them as an immigrant population.
this has nothing to do with "politically correct"---whatever that means.
it is a simple question of logic--you know, the idea that there should be some minimal correspondence between a term used and what it purports to describe.
the terminology matters because people use it to organize their experience---they do not KNOW what they are organizing--they appeal to political categories that enable them to order certain aspects of what they see and from there they generally simply run out the effects of the CATEGORY.
so without this fatuous, empty category of the "illegal immigrant" organizing this information, we wouldn't be having this debate.
if you think that categories are not fundamental to how people organize their experience, then you haven't actually thought much about it.
this is growing tedious really fast.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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