PBS Drops New Euphemism for Illegals: ‘People Without Legal Status’
13th August 2025
Like ‘people of color’ (good) rather than ‘colored people’ (bad).
The PBS News Hour aggressively, almost amusingly avoided the term “illegal” to describe illegal immigrants in Friday’s story on President Trump’s call for a new U.S. Census that would not count illegal immigrants, a move that would change the recorded population of various states and perhaps result in fewer members in the congressional delegation of some states with high illegal-immigrant populations.