Changing the definition of words to blur the truth

It used to be that a mother who had kids, who got divorced, was called a divorced mom of two. Whereas a woman who had never been married, but had kids, was always called a single mother. In that way, it was pretty easy to see who had been married and had kids when they (presumably) could afford them, then the marriage didn't work out and they got a divotce.

As opposed to some 20 year old who didn't feel like going out and getting a job, so got pregnant, qualified for Section 8 housing and foodstamps, and is now living hte life of Riley.

No, they're all "single parents" now.

The same thing has been going on, for a long time, with "immigrants" and "illegal immigrants."

The folks on the left insist on calling illegals "immigrants" or "undocumented workers," leaving out the word "illegal" completely. And whenever anyone on the right complains about "Illegal aliens" the response they receive leaves out the word "illegal" so their opponents are trying to make it seem - and for the most part have succeeded in making it seem - that the right is against anyone coming in, legally or not.

So now we've got a movie called A Better Life.

Here's the description at the IMDB:
A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while trying to give his son the opportunities he never had.

Well, in this description the fact that the gardener is an illegal is left out, although one can infer it since he's trying to keep his son away from immigration agents.

Then we've got an IMDB review:

Kirk Honeycutt, film critic for the Hollywood Reporter and host of the UCLA film course where we previewed this movie immediately compared it to Vittorio De Sicas's 1948 classic film The Bicycle Thief . In it a man and his son search for a stolen bicycle vital for his job. Fast forward to the present time as Carlos, an undocumented immigrant, (played by Mexican super star Demian Bichir) and his teenage son (played by Jose Lulian, an American making his acting debut ) are on a similar quest. They are searching for Carlos' stolen truck which he bought with borrowed funds to give him his one chance to make a decent living as a gardener and pay off his debts. Where the original Italian movie painted a picture of the poverty in post war Italy, this film provides an insight into life in East Los Angeles with its poverty, gangs, immigrants desperate for work and living with constant fear of being deported. It captures the poignancy and the dilemmas of hard working immigrant families in cities like Los Angeles who are trying to survive and provide a better life for their children while one step away from being arrested and sent home.

What's the one word missing in that bolded sentence? Hard working *illegal* immigrant families.

What kind of life is it for the kids of these illegals, growing up afraid of authority? And, as they grow older, defiant of it. How about coming here legally, then you can hold your head up high and need fear no one.

Except the gangs, of course.

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