Readers Won’t Benefit if Times Bans the Term ‘Illegal Immigrant’

[Lefty Thinker]

3. How about "unauthorized immigrant"?

Words are important. I program computers and if I don't choose just the right name for a concept, the it gets used in a way it shouldn't or doesn't get used when it should. The truth is that these people did not (whether or not it was feasible) go through the established channels to approve their immigration. But the conditions are allowed to exist in this country that accommodate their unauthorized immigration. It's like putting an ice cube in boiling water and expecting it to stay frozen.

I don't believe that it is the individual households that hire these immigrants that cause the problem (although they contribute) but the companies that like to hire people who lack the protections of labor law to drive down wages. It's an illegal act that is an attack on the middle class, and you can be sure that most of the business owners doing this are the same Republicans complaining about the problem they themselves created.