5/26/2023 0 Comments Ufw boycott![]() When someone reads that with twenty-first century eyes, they are misled by what it signified in the 1970s. That includes the UFW, whose press releases, newspaper, and conversations among themselves referred to the undocumented as illegals, illegal aliens, and even, on occasion, wetbacks. ![]() Before that, many people, including all variety of progressives, used the terms “illegals” and “illegal aliens” without meaning to disparage the people they were talking about. But the term “undocumented” was hardly used by anyone until the mid-1970s and didn't become generally used until the 1980s. The words “undocumented” and “undocumented worker” are much preferable. ![]() I understand that it is very strange to call a person “illegal,” as it suggests that a person's very existence is against the law. I use the word “illegals” a lot in this essay. ![]()
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