Why are we allowing the US to call illegal immigrants “illegal aliens”?

What would be your word of choice for people who were living according to the law of entry in a country other than their country of birth? And what would your word of choice be for people living outside the law of entry in a country other than their country of birth? Every country has a right to differentiate between those two distinct groups.

Once again the empire building, imperialists want to match in and police other nations language.

It’s nothing to do with minority groups OP. I’m white British so not a minority group but if I went to the USA and tried to live there illegally, I would be classed as an illegal alien.

lived in Japan in the 1990s - had to go to the town hall to get my alien registration card.

was not offended or dehumanised.

pretty sure the immigrants have bigger things to worry about in the US right now than what word people use to describe them. (A word which democrats and republicans alike have used btw...)

Why are we allowing the US? We don't own the world, don't be so ridiculous.

Because of people like you?

I guess someone should have corrected David Attenborough when he was describing the great migration of the Caribou, they weren't migrating, they were seeking refuge.
Why are you so bent out of shape about perfectly reasonable descriptive words.
I guess some people really try hard to find things to be offended about and it's usually on behalf of someone else.
Are you really saying you would be offended, feel othered and dehumanised if at some stage in the future you traveled to America and were considered an alien by TSA? Or is it just if someone else, not you, is technically considered an alien in the states?

I dont think we have any control over the language the US uses! Or their actions unfortunately.

I agree with you it’s not a term I’d want to hear used over here.

That said, my grandfather who was an immigrant used to refer to himself as an alien. But I think he thought it was funny.

It’s a legal term in the U.S.

You’re thinking too much into it.

Lol my son is,Diabetic and im on an American Facebook group for Diabetes
It does make me chuckle when they talk about carrying all their diabetc equipment around in their fanny packs.

Yes, my error. It’s really a generic term, but I guess when it comes to America they can be provocative.

@KimGym You are aware current UK legislation still has live on the statue books the Aliens’ Employment Act 1955
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/4-5/18

It’s also used in a lot of other countrie in official documents/correspondance, for example the Netherlands

I think you're being overly sensitive about the word alien. It may not be your choice, nor mine, but it does only mean from elsewhere.

If we start over-policing language we'll have no words left, no way of differentiating people when it's legitimate to do so. This may be intentional in some cases. We've seen in the UK no doubt well-meaning people objecting to the use of 'illegal migrants' for the arrivals in small boats on the south coast. But they are migrants and they are arriving by illegal means: if we change the terminology we'll be failing to draw a distinction between them and the ones who arrive by legal means. A backward step, IMHO.

Those Yanks do insist on being able to develop their own parlance. Imagine saying ‘fanny’ and then slyly pretending they are referring to an arse. When we all know what they are really trying to get away with. Rude buggers.

I won’t even go near the ‘our’ such as colour and them deleting the u part. They are definitely doing a bit free mason ‘non u’ there. Pretending a bag is a purse, and the spelling of jewelry, aluminum, anemia, analyze. It is not a ‘cell phone’, it is a mobile phone.

All to outwit and alienate non Americans even more, no doubt. Or simply aliens as they call them. Every non American, or alien as they call us, needs to tell them for once and for all what they can and can’t do.

Then we’ll China, Afghanistan, Iran and Russia. But those places are definitely of a lesser threat to human rights abuses, so can wait in line.

I too agree with you too OP and I was coming on to say exactly this.

That wasn’t worth reading at all. People thousands of miles away, arguing about nothing. Find something useful to do with your time and stop wasting ours.

Why are we allowing them to call crisps chips, trousers pants and bum bags Fanny packs? Because they use different words to us that’s why. Not everything is there to offend you.

LOL

It's I'm a LEGAL alien. He's not illegal, he had a visa which just goes to show it's not offensive, just the term for someone that doesn't live there. Although Sting obviously found it a strange term as well

Or, as you posted re Sting, you can also be a legal alien.