• Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 days ago

    they made this the one offense that makes a person be “illegal”

    It doesn’t make the person be illegal, but we nounify crimes to describe people who have committed said crime all the time.

    The whole point of the “undocumented worker” language is to make it sound like someone who misplaced some paperwork, rather than someone who violated immigration law.

    I mean, no one gets mad when you use the more common terms to describe an undocumented procurement specialist, an adverse euthanasia specialist or an unauthorized sexual partner. Despite those terms describing the person as being their violation of law.