This chapter discusses the shifting meaning of the interdependent terms "illegal immigrant" and "citizen" in anti-immigrant rhetoric and anti-immigration legislation. It shows how fear and concerns about status preservation are exploited discursively in racist campaigns and laws. It argues that this exploitation results in laws that maintain the disenfranchisement of all immigrants, especially Latinxs, the largest growing segment of the US population.
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Espinosa-Aguilar, A. (2016). Illegal. In Decolonizing Rhetoric and Composition Studies: New Latinx Keywords for Theory and Pedagogy (pp. 155–167). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52724-0_11
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