PC: Not 'unauthorized' but 'illegal'

HOPEFULLY Millie is on her way back to California, and the ARFEE debacle is behind us. If so, I would like to express my opinion about an article in the Nov. 19 paper entitled: “Unauthorized immigrant numbers growing in Idaho.”

Has The Press become so politically correct that it is afraid to call a spade a spade, and would rather call it something that makes it “seem” better than it really is?

The article should have read “illegal alien numbers growing in Idaho.” I prove my point by looking each word up the old fashioned way, by the definition of each word, in Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary.

UNAUTHORIZED: Without authority, not sanctioned by law with legal authority.

IMMIGRANT: A person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence.

ILLEGAL:

(1) Not according to, or authorized by law.

(2) An illegal immigrant.

ALIEN:

(1) Belonging to another family, race or nation.

(2) A foreign-born resident, who has not been naturalized and is still subject to or citizen of another country.

(3) Relating to, belonging to, or owing allegiance to another country or government.

Many Americans feel like I do — the only true way to become a citizen of this great nation is by legal due process, not sneaking across the borders. So, call a spade a spade, not a shovel!

I am a Canadian by birth, an American by choice and also a military veteran.

KEN BLACK

Coeur d’Alene