Irony is to be found, perhaps, in the Declaration of independence suggesting all men are endowed with "certain unalienable Rights," and then for a group who are deprived of liberty and the pursuit of happiness -- deprived from having those things in the United States, anyway -- to be called "illegal aliens."
I wish that instead of treating them as illegal aliens, we treated them as unalienable, as unaliens.
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