Some folks just don’t want to use the right words. My first thought was that they don’t know better but that can’t possibly be. I hear people, most of whom must have college degrees using, abusing and misusing words. I think it is intentional. I think they abuse words in hopes of deception.

Let’s start with migrate. Birds migrare. Heards migrate. Sometimes even people migrate to follow the harvests. The folks coming north of or border, by legal definition are illegal immigrants. That is the way it is spelled out in the code. If you use any other terminology, you’re wrong, either by ignorance or intentionally.

So. Which is it. If you use the wrong words, is it stupidity or deception?

By the way, lest anyone get the wrong idea, illegal immigrants actually does mean illegal. Maybe the first step in dealing with the problem is to use the right words.