Bill would mandate nicer term for illegals
By Bill Cotterell
news-press.com
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"I personally find the word 'alien' offensive when applied to individuals, especially to children," said Sen. Frederica Wilson, D-Miami. "An alien to me is someone from out of space."
She has introduced a bill providing that: "A state agency or official may not use the term 'illegal alien' in an official document of the state." There would be no penalty for using the words.
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She said she encountered the situation when trying to pass a bill allowing children of foreigners to get in-state tuition at colleges and universities. Wilson, who directs a dropout prevention and education program in
A supreme example of "The Peter Principle". Certainly, this woman has risen to the level of her own incompetence. Not only is she trying to legislate speech and the freedom thereof, she is ignorant of the etymology of the word "alien" which can be traced back thousands of years to the Latin where it simply means "belonging or relating to another person, place, or thing ". It did come to reference beings from outer space until recently. -mm
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