ILLEGAL ALIEN SEX OFFENDERS

(Denver, CO) This story demonstrates that having a blas� attitude towards foreign nationals roaming around the US is dangerous.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have arrested 13 non-U.S. citizen criminal sex offenders in the Denver area over the past week and jailed them pending deportation proceedings.

Each had been convicted of sex crimes in Colorado, said Jeffrey Copp, ICE associate special agent in charge.

One crime involved sexual assault of a 20-year-old woman with the mental capacity of a 6-year-old, Copp said.

Six of those arrested came from Mexico, three from El Salvador and the remainder from Peru, Honduras, Uruguay and Afghanistan.

What's not clear in the article is why these people are called immigrants and non-citizens at the same time. My general understanding is that a person is an alien until they become naturalized as a US citizen and, therefore, an immigrant.

To those that have completed the legal immigration process, the term "illegal immigrant" is offensive, yet it's euphemistically used to mean "foreign nationals illegally in the United States." If a person sneaks into the US from Mexico or China, that person is a Mexican or Chinese illegally in the US. There are no such entities as "undocumented immigrants" nor "illegal immigrants." Of course, I could be wrong.

[via Sharp Knife.]