Los Angeles Times: ‘Undocumented’ Is Also Racist

Do you remember when the musician Prince changed his stage name to a symbol as a form of protest against his music label? Since no one could pronounce it, he was generally referred to as "the artist formerly known as Prince"  in the press. 

The immigration debate took a similar absurd turn yesterday thanks to the Los Angeles Times which announced to the world that it would not only cease referring to people who had violated American immigration laws as "illegal immigrants," it would also refrain from using the latest politically correct term "undocumented" to describe them as well.

Perhaps this was inevitable given the fact that trying to use the word undocumented to refer to someone who overstayed a visa is clearly inaccurate. There are, in fact, documents that prove the individual in question came to this country at some point.

"The alternative suggested by the 1995 guidelines, 'undocumented immigrants,' similarly falls short of our goal of precision," the paper admitted in a memo released to employees.

But rather than take the easy way out and use the fully accurate term "illegal immigrant," the Times has decided to favor circumlocution instead:

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