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To: kinkblot who wrote (389)	11/26/2001 4:59:30 PM
From: Don Pueblo	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 480

George Benge, a monthly columnist on diversity issues for Gannett News Service, says the phrase illegal alien should be stricken from the nation's vocabulary because it is demeaning to the millions of "undocumented workers" who come to America every year. Benge calls the phrase a "formidable ethnic slur" that is "among the most dangerous kind of slurs because it has gained wide acceptance at many levels of society." The phrase inflicts damage, he reasons, not unlike that caused by perpetrators of hit-and-run accidents who are never called to account for their actions. "The victim lies bleeding and battered on the sidewalk as thousands of other cars pass by without stopping to help or apprehend the culprit," he wrote in a column distributed by the Gannet News Service.