• Victor@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    The wording of “alien” is pretty disturbing in and of itself. Not illegal or anything, not “foreign”, but “alien”. Might as well just say “unwanted”.

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      5 days ago

      There are a whole lot of aliens with citizenship. Both people that have naturalized and citizens born abroad to American parents.

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        5 days ago

        Yup, just the word itself has a very strong connotation to something negative or dangerous, so I doubt it’s by accident that they chose this word.

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          Not at all an accident. And indicative of how they want to deport (or worse) legal aliens. And further, we’ve seen them deport many natural born American citizens from minority groups they are targeting.