Reflecting on dehumanizing language like “illegal immigrant” and “alien,” Jen Budd, a former senior Border Patrol agent, writes in an op-ed for the Louisville Courier-Journal: “When we use this language about migrants, we are telling ourselves that they are less than human.” It’s precisely this language — which Budd herself admits to using in the past — that has an intended purpose: “Dehumanizing immigrants is a step in the process of enabling agents to cram human beings into filthy detention cells, to take their children, to give them rotten food and to deny them medical care.”
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