#immigreation

AP FACT CHECK: Trump's false claims on migrant child deaths

Actions may be legal or illegal, but people are not. Call them immigrants, undocumented families, parents without papers, our co-workers and neighbors. But they are not “illegals.” The i-word reduces human beings to their political status, and silences the real issues in the debate – whether existing immigration laws are even remotely fair or just in the first place. The i-word is offensive and divisive, and doesn’t belong in a newspaper headline any more than the n-word or any other ethnic slur. No human being is illegal.