Another Illegal Caught Commiting a Sex Crime, Wapo won't say "illegal"

[Anonymous]

love how they bury the illegal part and say "undocumented"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dcs-alleged-bike-groper-not-who-youd-expect/2012/09/20/6233ce1e-0346-11e2-8102-ebee9c66e190_story.html

[Freeman]

Anonymous wrote:love how they bury the illegal part and say "undocumented"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dcs-alleged-bike-groper-not-who-youd-expect/2012/09/20/6233ce1e-0346-11e2-8102-ebee9c66e190_story.html

So spending several paragraphs talking about how he is not in the country legally and mentioning how he didn't have a valid work status in another is how you think a reporter buries something? I would think burying that part of the story would probably mean it wasn't mentioned at all, or at least only alluded to in one tiny part. It looks like they used the language of the statement they received from the court in describing his status, and I doubt the actual legal terms include the word "illegal". The only way someone could miss that part of the story is by not reading it, and I don't think you can hold Wapo accountable if someone doesn't read all of an article. For future reference, how big do you want the neon, flashing letters to be before you don't claim something is buried in a story?

[Anonymous]

Really? She says

But that isn’t even his biggest legal problem.

His bail was set at just $100 because he isn’t going anywhere. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has a detainer on him, meaning ICE tagged him for deportation because he is in this country without proper documentation, according to court testimony.

I think she was pretty damn clear. If you are unhappy that "tagged for deportation" was insufficiently derogatory, I suggest you unclench, unbunch, and have a glass of wine.

[Anonymous]

Illegal is an adjective, not a noun.

[Anonymous]

well shouldn't the headline be "Another illegal commits a reprehensible crime"

[Anonymous]

What is illegal about his presence here is that he is undocumented. When someone robs your house, do you call him an illegal entrant or a robber?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:well shouldn't the headline be "Another illegal commits a reprehensible crime"[/quote

No.

[Anonymous]

You seemed obsessed with this, you posted it on Fairfax Underground too.

http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/2/1003557.html

Looks like no one cares there either.

[Anonymous]

Technically, calling someone an "illegal" alien is like slang. They are either undocumented or out of status (I'm pretty sure).

The difference being that undocumented aliens did not even come here legally. Out of status means they came here legally but their visa expired.

I'm not particular about which way the Post puts it, but what bothers me are situations like in MoCo where they protected that pig who molested that little girl, AND they let him go home, and he did it AGAIN, and MoCo protected him AGAIN. Disgusting.