{"id":13076,"date":"2016-07-19T17:05:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T21:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=13076"},"modified":"2018-12-28T13:19:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:19:34","slug":"1984-george-orwells-dystopian-novel-rings-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2016\/07\/19\/1984-george-orwells-dystopian-novel-rings-true\/","title":{"rendered":"1984, George Orwell\u2019s Dystopian Novel, Rings True"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RazorApologists for illegal immigration are changing the language to create sympathy for lawbreakers and tarnish opponents of open borders. Just as George Orwell noted in his book 1984<\/i>, whoever controls the words shapes people\u2019s thoughts.<\/p>\n

In an everyday example of language manipulation, the mainstream media has ditched the accurate, legal phrase \u201cillegal aliens\u201d and replaced it with \u201cundocumented immigrant,\u201d which is becoming part of the general lexicon. Also, the Library of Congress is trying to change the subject headings \u201caliens\u201d and \u201cillegal aliens,\u201d replacing them with the nebulous and inaccurate terms \u201cnoncitizens\u201d and \u201cunauthorized immigration.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amnesty apologists are now repeating the phrase that they are on the \u201cright side of history.\u201d That\u2019s a pretty big assumption, since no one knows how things will play out. If illegal immigration causes an economic apocalypse, future historians could well determine that the open borders fanatics acted in a delusional fashion that ignored facts and warnings.<\/p>\n

Another tried and true tactic \u2013 branding anyone opposed to coddling illegal aliens as a racist \u2013 rings hollow because it addresses none of the real issues surrounding the phenomenon. \u00a0 Angry open borders fanatics, unafraid to openly protest when they fail to get their way, are focusing their wrath at the Governor of Massachusetts, who refuses to dispense driver\u2019s licenses to illegal aliens.<\/p>\n

In this report<\/a>, a local television station in Boston chronicled the exploits of \u201coutraged\u201d illegal immigrant sympathizers: \u201cChanting \u2018no justice, no peace. No racist policies,\u2019 pro-immigration activists are criticizing\u00a0Governor [Charlie] Baker\u2019s proposal to prohibit undocumented immigrants from getting a driver\u2019s license in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s a shame that the governor is taking on such racist policies because he knows that this is going to impact people of color. It\u2019s going to impact immigrants of color,\u2019 said Natalicia Tracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The driver\u2019s license issue has nothing to do with the color of potential recipients\u2019 skin, but everything to do with public safety and the desire to discourage more illegal immigration.<\/p>\n

It is outrageous to show such disrespect to a country that harbors more than 11 million illegal aliens, allows them to work and live virtually unmolested and educates their kids for free \u2013 just because a state decides that giving driver\u2019s licenses to people who have broken the law and lack documentation is a bad policy.<\/p>\n

George Orwell understood the power of words. In 1984<\/i>, a critique of left-wing politics, the totalitarian government that polices and punishes thought crimes foretold the conformity of opinion favored by today\u2019s militant leftists, who are hijacking the national discourse to buttress their positions and stifle any opposition or debate.