Just had my mind blown….
First, let me say that I know meanings of words change over a period of time, but this one… OH HELL NO, this is just ANOTHER racist tactic imbedded in society.
So the word illegal, in the English language, originally refered to inanimate objects and actions… now it [also] refers to a group of humans (illegal immigrants), thus dehumanizing this group of people. When in fact, they are not illegal… their actions, which got them into the country were illegal, but they are not. They are undocumented. How can you be an illegal human… somehow counterfeit or not real?
How did this one slip right by me?! I vow to never use the words illegal and immigrant in relation to one another.
Let’s start a movement and give back the human quality these immigrants possess.
Please tell me, notjustmythoughts.
notjustmythoughts 
notjustmythoughts,
What will be some of the unifying principles of this movement? All immigrants have not been treated equal in the U.S. Many have come and embraced the racial politics of the U.S. that uses Black subjugation as a means to create a trope of ultimate otherness, that debases us all.
noname
Excuse the grammatical errors!
calling someone illegal dehumanizes them as illegal in its original form describes innate objects… thus people cannot be illegal only their actions… my movement would just be to simply change the verbage used to describe immigrants who are in the country illegally. starting with myself… and hopefully my readers.