Friday, April 11, 2025

"Undocumented Worker": The Left's Preferred Expression for "Illegal Alien" Is False and Misleading

"Everybody has the right to papers!" thunders one outraged Democrat after another, as the usual Locofocos and Drama Queens castigate (allegedly) undemocratic laws demanding that illegal aliens show documentation. (Except of course, one is tempted to ask what the big deal is when, if liberals had their way, nobody actually would need papers anywhere when they show up to cast a vote in an election…)

Well — as I have been writing on this blog for the past 15 years — it so happens that every illegal alien in the United States is documented; every illegal alien in the United States does have papers.

Mexican papers.

(Well, sometimes, they have Honduran papers, or Guatemalan papers, or Venezuelan papers, or Filipino papers, or Kazakh papers, or Chinese papers, or some other papers, but let's keep using Mexico as an illustrative example…)
 
• "Undocumented Worker": The Left's Preferred Expression for "Illegal Alien" Is False and Misleading
• It So Happens That Every Illegal Alien in America Already Does Have Papers 

If a foreigner, say an American, were to head to Mexico, for however short (a vacation) or however long a period (to work there) — and whether he entered the country legally or not (!) — he still, guess what, he still has papers. He has his American papers! Offhand, he has his driver's license, various IDs, and/or his passport…
 
True, a number of the Mexican and Central American illegals, many of them paupers, may not physically have papers in their pockets to produce, as is the case with many of their respective countrymen, but still, offhand, the "undocumented" immigrants retain as many (or as few) papers, and rights, as any other citizen of their own country before they emigrated, legally or otherwise.

Everybody has the right to papers, but not everybody has the right to American papers!

What is there to be outraged about here? The equivalent is true for Americans, and for other Westerners — for instance the Yanqui Gringo mentioned above, who does not have the right (or an automatic right) to Mexican papers. Just as I, a foreigner living in Paris, do not have right — certainly, not an automatic right — to French papers and do not have the right to vote in French elections (it is not a right I would want — no offense intended — and I would never castigate the French for failing to give it to me or to any other foreigner)…

If I had the time, we could enter a discussion regarding the difference between natural rights (which every individual on Earth has) and civic rights (or citizen rights, which depend on the country you are — legally — living in, whatever part of the globe that country is located in), but I don't, so I will just suggest you read the books of Harry Jaffa…

To return to Mexico, nothing in Mexican law presupposes that our American expatriate be given, say, a job (or that he have the freedom to choose any job he wants) in Mexico or that, say, he vote in Mexican elections. Indeed, reports on Mexico's own problem with illegal aliens (Central Americans that cross over that nation's Southern border) point out to quite a few problems in that country (the one allegedly martyred by white American racists), far worse than anything in the United States, with Amnesty International calling "the abuse of migrants in Mexico a major human rights crisis".

Indeed, as JammieWearingFool puts it (gracias por el Professor Reynolds),
No wonder they're all moving to the Nazi-like, fascistic, police-state of Arizona.
Now, if any Mexicans, say the citizens of the estado de Chihuahua, want American papers, there is a simple solution: I suggest that they ask that the state be annexed by the United States. (Don't be so quick to issue a snort. I'm sure quite a few Mexicans would be more than willing to see that happen…)

Related: • Leftists fail to mention that what little illegal aliens do pay in taxes is dwarfed by what they cost the taxpayer both directly and indirectly

• Illegal immigration is to immigration what shoplifting is to shopping

• Liberals will bring in a slew of (mostly illegal) immigrants, transform them into wards of the state, and register them to vote, thus diluting the power of the Cable Guy voting bloc

• What Obama and his Democratic allies are attempting to do is to completely remake America into a government-dependent society, and importing millions of low-skilled low-educated aliens is central to that goal

• U.S. History has not been, as Obama implies, 200 years of sustained mass migration—and it certainly hasn’t been 200 years of lawless open borders, which is his actual goal

• No one talks about legal immigrants who are hard working men and women, who wait for the frustratingly slow process that seems to discriminate against those who want to do it by the book

• Questions to the Leftists: If Immigrants Are Such Paragons of Virtue, Why Not Support Sending Them Home to Their Countries to Become Productive Citizens Who Help Build Up Their Respective Nations?!

• It So Happens That Every Illegal Alien in America Already Does Have Papers

• "Undocumented Worker" — The Left's Preferred Expression for "Illegal Alien" Is False and Misleading 

• No, Liberals, there Is Not a Single "Undocumented Worker" in the United States (or on This Planet)

• Hostility towards mass immigration arises not just from fears of economic “progress”, but from various instructive experiences (such as cultural incompatibility, social disadvantage, imported crime and terrorism, and an uninvited threat to national identity)

• Sarah A. Hoyt on Being American

• Phyllis Schlafly's Rules for Addressing Amnesty

• If the U.S. were to treat Mexican nationals in the same way that Mexico treats Central American nationals, there would be humanitarian outrage

• What Obama doesn’t want is for people to draw the connection between immigration and the spreading of disease because it would be disastrous for his long term plans to change the demographics of this country
 
Our ol' chum, Damian Bennett, points out that
What is most annoying about lefty 'journos' is they are shamelessly stupid. Not incidentally stupid, not I-was-born-this-way stupid, not one-off stupid, not oopsie stupid but doggèdly deliberate doublethink donkey stupid.

There is no red-pilling them. They will go to their graves stupid.
In that perspective — that of the left's Locofocos and its Drama Queens — Damian Bennett goes on to point to a lengthy list of articles about illegal immigrants, focusing on Venezuela's ultra-violent Tren de Aragua gang members.
A leaked security briefing details the dangers of a transnational criminal cartel operating inside the USA

The thrust of the article seems plausible given the facts of the case, and DJT certainly thinks so...


...but I think the wrong culprit has been fingered. Connect the mazey dots below:

Trump tablesets...
...the 'resistance' has long readied its pan-policy response...
...and on and on and on and now bears its violent fruit...
...all this followed by the Democrats poker tell of projecting elsewhere what they themselves are about:
Why indeed. Yet:
So much more of this but enough to paint the picture of a Democrat party that is primed and prepared for, and openly prompts violence. But who to carry out the violence against the Trump administration and electorate? Not the cosplay Antifa soy boys and low-T bullies. [Pause to ponder.] 

Hhmmm, an ultra-violent criminal organization with strategically seeded beachheads across America fits the bill. 

So back to your article, it is not Venezuela invading America, that's not credible. How would two-left-hands Venezuela manage an invasion? Venezuela is only the broker for Tren de Aragua's business expansion. (I add in passing that Tren de Aragua is more organized, disciplined, operationally capable, and financially tenable than the Maduro government.) What is credible is Venezuela providing a sleeper paramilitary force that is deep-state funded on the American side, to be activated in extremis. What the deep state wants is to destroy Trump47 and his supporters not the lucrative real estate and commercial opportunities of America.

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Kaiser Derden (aka TDL) said...

If I am 14 years old and am blind and have failed to take my drivers test yet still drive I am not an undocumented driver ... I am an illegal driver because even if I took the driving exam I would never be issued a drivers license ... I am NOT ALLOWED to drive ... an illegal immigrant has no right to be in the country ... they can never be eligible for legal papers, they are not qualified for legal status ...

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