North of 6 million illegal immigrants have crossed the southern border since President Joe Biden took office just over three years ago. Many of these immigrants have gone on to commit additional crimes, up to and including murder, but they are all, by definition, illegal.
Jose Antonio Ibarra, a 26-year-old Venezuelan citizen who crossed the southern border illegally in 2022, is being held without bail on charges of felonious murder, kidnapping, and aggravated battery, among other charges, after he allegedly killed 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley on the University of Georgia campus.
Riley would be alive if not for the open-border policies of the Biden regime, but that is of no concern to the 46th president. To Biden, his only mistake was referring to Ibarra as an “illegal” at the State of the Union address last week. Biden rushed to MSNBC to apologize.
“I shouldn’t have used ‘illegal.’ It’s ‘undocumented,’” the president told Jonathan Capehart. “I’m not gonna treat any of these people with disrespect. They built this country.”
This is your brain on leftism: Ignore the hordes of criminal illegal immigrants flooding into the country, ignore the American citizens harmed, or even killed, by said illegal immigrants, and police any language that could be seen as offensive to the criminals harming Americans. Of course, Biden knows, or knew when he was still lucid, that criminal immigrants didn’t “build this country,” but Democrats have prioritized illegal immigrants over American citizens (occasionally, they will come right out and say as much) and have relied on manipulating language to promote their preferred agendas for decades.
Democrats aren’t complicated. “Undocumented” sounds a bit more friendly than “illegal,” and some on the Left are even attempting to float a new and improved term for illegal immigrants: “unlawfully present.” Surely, Riley’s family wishes Ibarra were absent that day in Georgia.
Democrats and their enablers in the media employ these language games to control the narrative, and illegal immigrants aren’t the only “untouchable” minority group in the eyes of the regime. Following mass shootings perpetrated by transgender people, left-wing pundits and even local police departments involved in the cases seem more concerned with not “misgendering” the killers than preventing tragedies in the first place.
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When the economy entered a recession in mid-2022, Democrats and the media simply changed the decadeslong definition of a recession, two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth, to deflect from the catastrophic results of Biden’s reckless spending. Democrats and journalists alike claim Republicans who attempt to reform entitlements want to “kill grandma” when, in fact, they want to ensure that the elderly continue to receive the benefits to which they have become accustomed.
It is time for the Right and anyone else who possesses the ability to perceive reality accurately to reject the Left’s games wholesale. You are illegal if you enter the country illegally, a man cannot become a woman, a recession is a recession, and without radical changes, grandma’s checks will stop coming. Allowing the Left to dictate language isn’t just annoying. It is dangerous. Ignore them and tell the truth.
Brady Leonard (@bradyleonard) is a musician, political strategist, and host of The No Gimmicks Podcast.