It's a lie! It's an influx at the border, not an invasion. Emphatically correct this improper border characterization.

[nature-lover]

I realize the word "invasion" is a deliberate term used for legal justification of abhorrent state policies. Our media must call this out every time!

[Easterncedar]

1. Right

We don’t pay enough attention to the way the media’s word choices drive the narrative. Weapons of mass destruction a case in point.

[usonian]

2. So, unarmed asylum seekers are called an "invasion"

while armed national guards from various states in personnel carriers are guests?

Just twisting the language. Complicit MSM tools don't fault them for doing it.

1984, which they didn't read.

[agingdem]

4. I've lived on the border most of my life...

and there is no "invasion" with the exception of Republican congress assholes "touring" the border with hordes of toady media idiots following in their wake, recording spewed nonsensical bullshit of marauding rapists braving the waters of the Rio Grande with the sole purpose of impregnating our "real American" (white) daughters...

and btw, a border town is more than likely a 60/40 spit, hispanics in the majority and, shock of shocks, we don't care...

[mike_c]

3. the whole issue is cloaked in lies

It's perfectly legal to enter the US to seek asylum. In fact, you must enter the country in order to request asylum. Asylum seekers can enter the country anywhere, not just at entry ports. And IIRC asylum seekers have up to one year to apply for asylum after entering the US.

So asylum seekers are not "illegal immigrants" at all, and their applications are normally processed into an administrative sequence in which most are released into the US pending their appearance at immigration court, which can be scheduled months in advance. Grandstanding federal and state admins have tried to mis-characterize and undermine that process, going so far as to incarcerate asylum seekers pending court appearances and separate children from their parents.

We are allowing republicans to control the immigration narrative. The notion that everyone crossing the southern border is "illegal" is simply not true. It's a deliberate lie. Most southern immigrants are legally seeking asylum, whether or not they themselves understand how that works at the time of entry. Does US media ever correct the misconceptions and disinformation pushed by republican xenophobes? If they do, I'm not aware of it. We need to push back and educate Americans every time some bigot uses the term "illegals."

If you repeat a lie often enough, it begins to sound like the truth.