{"id":5022,"date":"2015-08-14T09:11:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T14:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=5022"},"modified":"2015-08-14T09:17:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T14:17:20","slug":"d-a-king-on-fox-news-latino-opinion-alien-too-hurtful-maybe-entire-legal-code-should-be-re-written-in-emojis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/14\/d-a-king-on-fox-news-latino-opinion-alien-too-hurtful-maybe-entire-legal-code-should-be-re-written-in-emojis\/","title":{"rendered":"D.A. King on Fox News Latino – Opinion: ‘Alien’ too hurtful? Maybe entire legal code should be re-written in Emojis"},"content":{"rendered":"

This latest mindless attempt to eliminate the inconvenient words from the English language only serve to remind the rest of us that California is the illegal immigration capital of the world and is going bust because of its ridiculous and deadly liberal laws and policies.
\n– D.A. King<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In another of a seemingly endless shake-your-head series of jump-the-shark politically correct attempts at distraction from the state\u2019s massive wall of debt crisis, Governor \u201cMoonbeam\u201d Jerry Brown and the Democrat legislature have decided to strike the English word \u201calien\u201d from California labor laws.<\/p>\n

Not the legal and accurate term for non-citizens here in violation of American immigration laws \u2013 which is \u201cillegal alien\u201d \u2014 just \u2026 \u201calien<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democrat state Senator Tony Mendoza (D-Artesia), author of the bill, says \u201calien\u201d is now commonly considered a derogatory term for a foreign-born person and has very negative connotations. Note to Mendoza from mainstream America: No, it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

The executive director of the San Francisco Labor Council, Tim Paulson, reportedly told the San Francisco Chronicle that \u201cthe word \u2018alien\u2019 has incredibly racist and un-American connotations.\u201d Got that?<\/p>\n

Merriam-Webster contains several definitions for the English word \u201calien.\u201d Among them: \u201ca person who was born in a different country and is not a citizen of the country in which he or she now lives; \u201ca foreign-born resident who has not been naturalized and is still a subject or citizen of a foreign country; and \u201ca creature that comes from somewhere other than the planet Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

It seems that even with English as the official language of California, there are exceptions for full usage.<\/p>\n

We anxiously await the headline announcing the official scrubbing of the word \u201calien\u201d in any discussions or studies at Caltech\u2019s center of astronomical research, Mt. Palomar Observatory, as \u201cracist.\u201d<\/p>\n

A quick look at several online translator sites and queries to my native Spanish-speaking friends informs me that \u201calien\u201d en Espanol is \u201cextranjero.\u201d So, a question for the language police in Sacramento: Is alien \u201cracist, derogatory and un-American\u201d in any language \u2026 or only English?<\/p>\n

Maybe the entire California legal code can be soon re-written in Emojis?<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, back here on planet Earth, curious readers should know that \u201calien\u201d is still really a word. As a matter of fact, it is usefully combined with the English word \u201cillegal\u201d quite often.<\/p>\n

One wonders at the sleepless nights and fits of rage from the California government officials when they hear that \u201cillegal alien\u201d is used in federal law, various state laws, by the IRS, in multiple presidential Executive Orders, by federal immigration law enforcement and by the United States Supreme Court \u2014 including by that self-described \u201cwise Latina\u201d Justice Sonia Sotomayor.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe concern is that the use of the word \u2018alien\u2019 would dehumanize the people affected\u201d and lead to \u201clack of protections under the law,\u201d claims Kevin R. Johnson, dean of Public Interest Law and professor of Chicana\/Chicano Studies at UC Davis.<\/p>\n

The quotes from California\u2019s sensitive elite bring up yet another question. Is it \u201cdehumanizing\u201d or \u201cderogatory\u201d to use the word \u201calien\u201d when noting the murder of Kate Steinle by an illegal alien who was a convicted criminal and who had been deported multiple times? We wouldn\u2019t want to hurt anybody\u2019s feelings.<\/p>\n

Is it \u201cun-American\u201d or hurtful when Americans Billy and Kathy Inman of Woodstock, Georgia tell the story of an illegal alien killing their only child, Dustin \u2013 age sixteen<\/a>, fifteen years ago in his own country because he was welcomed into the USA by mindless politicians and rewarded with an officially-issued drivers license, a job, and various public benefits?<\/p>\n

Is it \u201cdehumanizing\u201d when Kathy Inman explains from her wheelchair that she has been there ever since the illegal alien looking for a better life put here there for the rest of her life when he killed her son?<\/p>\n

This latest mindless attempt to eliminate the inconvenient words from the English language only serve to remind the rest of us that California is the illegal immigration capital of the world and is going bust because of its ridiculous and deadly liberal laws and policies.<\/p>\n

One more definition from Merriam-Webster: \u201cFool: a person who lacks good sense or judgment: a stupid or silly person.\u201d<\/p>\n

D.A. King is president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society and is an independent voter. He describes himself a \u201cpro-enforcement\u201d on immigration and borders. Twitter:@DAKDIS<\/p>\n

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