NPR REPORT ON WHAT HAPPENS AFTER ICE RAID ON IMMIGRANTS IN GEORGIA

I heard NPR's Morning Edition today with a report on a small town in rural Georgia and its chicken processing plant. The hook was how a company copes after its mainly Latino work force departs en masse following a raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Must NPR and its reporters refer to undocumented Latinos as "illegals?" That's a word for lawyers, judges and courts. How does NPR know the Latinos were "illegals?" Perhaps a court will declare them to be in full compliance with the law. Perhaps they had done nothing "illegal." Why must we be subject to this put-down of Latino workers. Why must NPR disrespect them by calling them "illegals," or worse, "illegal aliens," as if they just arrived from some far-away planet.