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Trump Directive Mandates Use of 'Illegal Aliens,' Not 'Undocumented Migrants'

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If you're in publishing, chances are you have a stylebook to refer to. One of the most widely used is the Associated Press guidebook, which is what we're supposed to use here at Twitchy. I break the rules, though, by lowercasing both black and white. The Washington Post, curiously, chose to capitalize both.

I can't bring myself to capitalize only black because of the specious reasoning the AP used to reach that conclusion. Here's how they reached that difficult decision back in 2020:

What strong historical and cultural commonalities do an African American from New York City and a Somalian have?

White people do not not share a similar history and culture, if you exclude all of Western Civilization. OK.

I've done a few posts today on illegal immigration, and that's the term I usually use: illegal immigrant. I wrote a post earlier on Fox News' Jennifer Griffin using "undocumented immigrants" to describe illegal immigrants who haven't committed a crime. I suppose I should start using illegal aliens, as that's the new directive from the Trump administration, reportedly. The AP Stylebook? It officially dropped the term illegal immigrant in 2013.

Cool.

Exactly. If you call someone "undocumented," you mean they're here illegally without using the word "illegal." We're supposed to purge the word illegal from our vocabularies, and then our legal documents.

Anything but "undocumented persons."

Illegal alien is the legal term. I'll try to train myself to use it, although I like illegal immigrants. As long as it has the word "illegal" in it, I'm good with it.

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