Yvonne Wingett: "Language used to sway voters in immigration debate"

Yvonne Wingett of the Arizona Republic offers the titular article, which contains the seeds of its own evisceration. Let's see how she uses language to try to sway the voters in an open borders direction:

...The tipping point came last month, when Rep. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, suggested that "Operation Wetback," a 1950s mass-deportation program, be reinstated to help combat illegal immigration.

The term "wetback" is offensive to Latinos and is typically used to refer to a person who is an undocumented immigrant...

Pearce's use of the word and suggestion that the program be reinstated insulted minority, religious and community leaders who called for lawmakers to reject such divisive language...

Here's what Pearce actually said:

"We know what we need to do. In 1953, Dwight D. Eisenhower, put together a task force called 'Operation Wetback.' He removed, in less than a year, 1.3 million illegal aliens. They must be deported."

So, Wingett is lying about him wanting to "reinstate" that program. "Reinstate" is defined as "to put back or establish again, as in a former position or state", and specifically refers to the previous program. What Pearce suggested was something similar to OW. He wasn't calling for taking OW and starting it over again.

And, one can find thousands of cases of Mexicans or Spanish-speakers using the word "mojados", the equivalent of "wetbacks".

And, of course, "undocumented immigrants" are actually illegal aliens.

As for those who were "insulted", that's highly questionable considering that all of the media reports discussed at the second link were based only on the remarks of the Arizona Democratic Party and two people from the same group (Somos America, a group that organized some illegal immigration marches in Arizona).

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The once Goldwaterite AZ Republic is now attacking the memory of the late President Eisenhower-from the left! Imagine, spitting on the grave of the liberator of Europe(well, at least western Europe) and the man who used federal troops to integrate Central High School in Little Rock. And who was it who warned against "the danger of the military-industrial complex"? Maybe the AZR should tell us how and why Ike got it so terribly wrong in that particular instance instead of just simple-mindedly playing the race card like typical frothing-at-the-mouth leftist hysterics.

If people don't start to see what is coming next most American's will become undocmented aliens inside the former USA, It's coming down to that evil.