{"id":10637,"date":"2017-12-04T11:52:37","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T16:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=10637"},"modified":"2017-12-04T11:56:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T16:56:54","slug":"its-the-a-word-and-not-allowed-in-the-boston-globe-when-referring-to-illegal-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/04\/its-the-a-word-and-not-allowed-in-the-boston-globe-when-referring-to-illegal-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the &#8220;A&#8221; word and not allowed in the Boston Globe when referring to illegal immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><strong>&#8220;&#8230;it is our newspaper style not to use the term &#8220;alien&#8221; when referring to illegal immigration.&#8221;<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4>Boston Globe letters editor to me via email regarding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/04\/d-a-king-in-sundays-boston-globe-enforcement-works\/\">my letter<\/a> submission in which I used the legal and accurate term &#8220;illegal alien&#8221;. It is allowed and used in state law, federal law, by law enforcement, the IRS, Presidential Executive Orders, and SCOTUS. Just sayin&#8217;.<\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"vg-header\">Definition of <span class=\"vg-sm\">alien (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/alien\">Merriam Webster<\/a>)<\/span><\/h4>\n<div class=\"vg\">\n<div class=\"sense\">\n<p><span class=\"sn\"><span class=\"num\">1<\/span>a<\/span> <span class=\"dt \">: belonging or relating to another person, place, or thing : <a class=\"mw_t_sx\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/strange\">strange<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"vis\">\n<li><span class=\"t\">an <span class=\"mw_t_wi\">alien<\/span>environment<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sense\">\n<p><span class=\"sn\">b<\/span> <span class=\"dt \">: relating, belonging, or owing allegiance to another country or government : <a class=\"mw_t_sx\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/foreign\">foreign<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"vis\">\n<li><span class=\"t\"><span class=\"mw_t_wi\">alien<\/span> residents<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sense\">\n<p><span class=\"sn\">c<\/span> <span class=\"dt \">: <a class=\"mw_t_sx\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/exotic\">exotic<\/a> 1<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"vis\">\n<li><span class=\"t\"><span class=\"mw_t_wi\">alien<\/span> plants<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sb has-sn\">\n<p><span class=\"sn\"><span class=\"num\">2<\/span><\/span><span class=\"dt \">: differing in nature or character typically to the point of incompatibility<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"vis\">\n<li><span class=\"t\">ideas <span class=\"mw_t_wi\">alien<\/span> to democracy<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"uros\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;it is our newspaper style not to use the term &#8220;alien&#8221; when referring to illegal immigration.&#8221; Boston Globe letters editor to me via email regarding my letter submission in which I used the legal and accurate term &#8220;illegal alien&#8221;. It is allowed and used in state law, federal law, by law enforcement, the IRS, Presidential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10637"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10648,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10637\/revisions\/10648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}