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fishreplicas1, outrageous, unadulterated bile. Fortunately on the fringe, however unfortunately the kind of shit
that Trump in his bullshit election rhetoric encouraged. Trump did give voice and encouragement to their kind.

The author(s) got one sentence right

"Inside everyone, no matter how much of a dumbass they really are, is a built-in bullshit detector."

Just that some people's detectors are obviously, in that a letter of that kind could
be written with pride and read with agreement, decayed and not functioning at all.

Not that any of those Texas redneck racists would be interested, but the letter brought to
mind the question around the use of "illegal" v "undocumented" in the immigration debate.

Jonathan Rosa, a linguistic anthropologist at the University of Massachusetts, told NPR that both phrases muddle the conversation about immigration reform.

" 'Undocumented' and 'illegal' seem to be signaling one's stance when it comes to immigration reform than it is about characterizing the situation in a precise way," Rosa said. He said the State Department's definition of immigrant explicitly refers to lawful status, making the term "illegal immigrant" a contradiction. But undocumented immigrant doesn't quite fit either because the term "makes it seem as though there's [just been] an administrative mistake, as if a document wasn't issued."

Rosa said the fight over the terminology isn't trivial, since the ways people use language can have social consequences. "It's not simply a way of describing the world or representing the world; it's a way of taking action in the world," he said.

And in case you were wondering: Rosa says he uses the term "unauthorized migrant" in his academic writing. "A 'migrant" is just someone who is moving across national borders," he said. "It doesn't make any presumptions about the legal status of people."
http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2013/01/30/170677880/in-immigration-debate-undocumented-vs-illegal-is-more-than-just-semantics

Rosa nails it, "Unauthorized migrant" sounds best.

Thanks again that's two universities i've now seen at which Trump-inspired bullshit has occurred .. the other ..

Black Students At Penn Targeted With Barrage Of Lynching Threats
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=126503067

So Texas State University and University of Pennsylvania so far here.

Thanks. The link worked.