PBS Drops New Euphemism for Illegals: 'People Without Legal Status'

The PBS News Hour aggressively, almost amusingly avoided the term “illegal” to describe illegal immigrants in Friday’s story on President Trump’s call for a new U.S. Census that would not count illegal immigrants, a move that would change the recorded population of various states and perhaps result in fewer members in the congressional delegation of some states with high illegal-immigrant populations.

Note that the only reference to the illegal status of the immigrants came from Trump, and host Bennett made sure to set the phrase off in quotes. Bennett along with PBS reporter John Yang and their NPR reporter guest shunned the term in the proceeding report.