Extra!!  Extra!!  The GLOBALIZATION FOLLIES crew has found a front-runner for the 2009 “Euphemism of the Year Award” – specifically The New York Times editorial page.  Apparently it’s no longer enough to describe illegal aliens with such by-now-familiar standbys as “immigrants lacking documentation” (as in “Oops!  I’ve lost that darned green card!”).  The Times has now concocted an even less intellectually honest label for the Open Borders crowd to use.

This triumph of intellectual dissembling came in an editorial condemning federal enforcement actions likely to lead trendy clothing company American Apparel to fire 1,800 employees working in the country illegally.  Along the way, Times writers came up with this clever rhetorical device to divert attention from these workers’ law-breaking behavior:  They designated the employees as “would-be Americans.”

Technically, of course, this description is correct – at least for many of the illegals.  But what’s next at the Newspaper of Record?  Re-classifying thieves as “would-be property owners”?

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