Library Of Congress to Scrub 'Illegal Alien'

Alissa Lopez | July 25, 2016
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The Library of Congress is moving toward scrubbing the word “illegal alien” from documents and replacing the phrase with terms like “noncitizens” and “unauthorized immigration.” According to The New York Times, the library believes that the words "alien" and 'illegal alien" are slanderous.

Boo-freaking-hoo.

Political correctness is taking over the mindsets of the library staff because of Melissa Padilla, a Dartmouth College student who has been petitioning for the Library to remove the words for approximately two years.

In the midst of conducting research on immigration at her university’s library over two years ago, she grew infuriated after repeatedly reading the term “illegal alien” in documents.

Padilla was an illegal alien for 15 years, so the words obviously triggered her.

She told the NYT that “this term, and the way people used it to criminalize the choices our parents made in order to provide us with better lives, completely detracts from the brave choices and obstacles we overcame in order to survive.”

“I’m not illegal. I’m a survivor that continues to work toward a better future,” she claimed.

Poor little snowflake.

Following this event, Padilla reportedly joined her college’s Coalition for Immigration Reform and Equality and Dreamers club. But instead of petitioning her university to make a change, considering it was the books in her school’s library that offended her, she targeted a location that played no part in the development of her unnecessary anger. That totally makes sense.

In response to the Library of Congress giving in to Padilla's demands, in May, Texas congressmen Lamar Smith and John Culberson, along with Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) sent a letter to the acting Librarian of Congress David S. Mao, stating:

“There is no other way to put this: the Library has bowed to the political pressure of the moment. Such an action is beneath the dignity of the Library of Congress.”

Which is 110 percent true.

Shortly thereafter, in June, the House added a provision in the appropriations bill that would require the Library to maintain language used in federal laws, which includes the term “aliens.”

The provision states:

“To the extent practicable, the Committee instructs the Library to maintain certain subject headings that reflect terminology used in title 8, United States Code.”

The bill is currently at a standstill until Congress reconvenes in September. There are currently no legal restraints that prevent the Library of Congress from implementing this censorship.

I’m so sick of political correctness. It’s quite simple: if a person doesn’t like a word or a phrase, they are not obligated to use it. But that does not give sensitive ninnies like Padilla the right to impede on someone else’s right to free speech, or to change the government's language to avoid being personally offended.

Sorry to break it to you, sweetie, but you don’t have a right to not be offended. This is America and we have something called constitutional rights.

I understand these are books and not people, but with the Left, there is never an end goal. There is no line drawn. We see things happening around us like the FBI scrubbing over 800 federal documents of words pertaining to jihad and the Muslim Brotherhood. Terrorist attacks that could have been stopped if people were not afraid of coming off as a racist. So what will it take for people, politicians, and the Library of Congress to wake up and realize that there are no benefits to censorship?

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