Arizona Republic (Opinion- Arizona)
By Linda Valdez
June 8, 2015
Your tax dollars are at work dehumanizing young people. Attorney General Mark Brnovich's office is the wordsmith.
Consider: If you call someone a child, a youth or a teen, you are using words that reflect humanity.
These are words that show what we have in common with people who are reaching maturity under a threat.
Some
people use the word "dreamer" to describe those who grew up here
without legal status, but with all the hopes of any other young person
in this great country.
President
Obama set up a program to temporarily defer deportation so they could
work and go to school without fear. At least for a little while.
In
a ruling that said Arizona was wrong to deny driver's licenses to those
who qualified for that program, the U.S. District Court referred to
them as "persons commonly
known as dreamers." That was late January.
The
Ninth Circuit Court referred to them as "certain immigrants, who came
without permission to the United States as children." This was in July
-- the question at the
time was whether to issue a temporary injunction on the driver's
license ban.
Last
week, in his appeal of the district court's ruling that Arizona
violated the Equal Protection Clause with its ban on driver's licenses,
Brnovich's brief referred
to them as "aliens."
Aliens.
How much less human could you make them?
Lawyers choose their words carefully. The choice of that word tells you a lot about the attitude of the state's top lawyer.
It tells you a lot about how he's using your tax dollars.
it tells you a lot about who he's trying to please as he begins his time in office.
Do you like it?
I find it deeply disturbing.
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