Chris Menahan
Information Liberation
Sept 8, 2017
The documented propagandists at the Associated Press have unveiled a new term for illegal aliens: “undocumented citizens.”
They used the term in a report Tuesday on Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel proclaiming DACA recipients are welcome in the “Trump-free zone” of Chicago.
Emanuel spoke as Chicago Public Schools marked the first day of classes Tuesday. The mayor told students at Solorio Academy High School they “are welcome in the city of Chicago.” The Chicago Sun-Times reports that school officials say about a third of the school’s students are undocumented citizens. Emanuel said Chicago schools “will be a Trump-free zone.”
As Breitbart notes, these DACA recipients are neither “undocumented” nor US “citizens”:
The term incorrectly cites that illegal alien DACA recipients are undocumented, despite their documented status by the federal government. The term also incorrectly gives U.S. citizenship to illegal alien DACA recipients, despite none of the program’s recipients holding citizenship.
The legally correct term is illegal alien.
The AP stopped using the term “illegal immigrants” back in 2013, saying “‘illegal’ should describe only an action, such as living in or immigrating to a country illegally.”
Here’s some more newspeak the AP unveiled more recently as highlighted by The Daily Wire:
The AP Stylebook instructs, “Use anti-abortion instead of pro-life and pro-abortion rights instead of pro-abortion or pro-choice.” It goes on, “Avoid abortionist,” saying the term “connotes a person who performs clandestine abortions.”
Words related to terrorism are sanitized in the AP Stylebook. “Militant,” “lone wolves” or “attackers” are to be used instead of terrorist or Islamist. “People struggling to enter Europe” is favored over “migrant” or “refugee.” While it’s true that…