DHS says federal agents have arrested some 4,000 illegal aliens in Minnesota.

Thus cutting off health care benefits for illegal aliens.

They prioritize taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal aliens.

I'd like to see something done about the illegal alien problem that would be so sensitive.

... by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country.

You're listening to Civics 101. I'm Nick Cappadice.

I'm Hannah McCarthy.

And today we are exploring the logistics, politics, linguistic piccadillos involved with a very

politically charged term, illegal alien.

Now hold on, hold on everyone. I have not used that expression since 2009. Since the day I first

learned it was not the proper term to use for someone who was not authorized to reside in the United States.

Yeah. How did you first learn that?

Well, I was learning my very first tour at the Tenement Museum in New York,

and I was using that term to describe a Sicilian woman, Rosario Baldizi,

who came to the U.S. through Canada in the 1920s.

And the tremendous, patient, kind man who was training me said,

Nick, hold on a second.

We prefer not to use that word.

Did he give you a specific reason?

He most certainly did.

And that reason is kind of this whole episode.

We are going to dig into our country's history with and laws around immigration.

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