way to go Texas, pissing off Mexico and DC!

[Gman]

What we need is the federal governamnt to take note, and kick the illegals out. I mean after all their name says it all, "illegal".

That's why the media no longer accepts that description.

http://ideas.time.com/2012/09/21/imm...-word-illegal/

But describing an immigrant as illegal is legally inaccurate. Being in the U.S. without proper documents is a civil offense, not a criminal one. (Underscoring this reality, Justice Anthony Kennedywrotefor the majority opinion on SB 1070, Arizona’s controversial immigration law: “As a general rule, it is not a crime for a movable alien to remain in the United States.”) In a country that believes in due process of the law, calling an immigrant illegal is akin to calling a defendant awaiting trial a criminal. The term illegal is also imprecise. For many undocumented people — there are 11 million in the U.S. and most have immediate family members who are American citizens, either by birth or naturalization — their immigration status is fluid and, depending on individual circumstances, can be adjusted.

When journalists, who are supposed to seek neutrality and fairness, use the term, they are politicizing an already political issue. (How can using illegal immigrant be considered neutral, for example, when Republican strategist Frank Luntz encouraged using the term in a 2005 memo to tie undocumented people with criminality?) And the term dehumanizes and marginalizes the people it seeks to describe. Think of it this way: In what other contexts do we call someone illegal? If someone is driving a car at 14, we say “underage driver,” not “illegal driver.” If someone is driving under the influence, we call them a “drunk driver,” not an “illegal driver.” Put another way: How would you feel if you — or your family members or friends — were referred to as illegal?

I call shenanigans for the whole rationalization. They aren't supposed to be here. We should have enforceable borders (yet another failure for one of the few Constitutional obligations of the federal govt.). They have invaded our country illegally, so "illegals" works quite well, thank you.

...and these liberals aren't fooling very many of us;
‘Undocumented workers’ are still ‘illegal immigrants’ to most Americans