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Eli Kantor is a labor, employment and immigration law attorney. He has been practicing labor, employment and immigration law for more than 36 years. He has been featured in articles about labor, employment and immigration law in the L.A. Times, Business Week.com and Daily Variety. He is a regular columnist for the Daily Journal. Telephone (310)274-8216; eli@elikantorlaw.com. For more information, visit beverlyhillsimmigrationlaw.com and and beverlyhillsemploymentlaw.com

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Friday, October 11, 2019

LANGUAGE MATTERS

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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