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The Bloomberg title does not include the word “Illegal”, which appears to be an editorialization in the title posted here on HN.
by carbocation 9y ago
The Bloomberg title does not include the word “Illegal”, which appears to be an editorialization in the title posted here on HN.
- meri_dian 9y agoThe original Bloomberg article was misleading because there are many laws which concern immigrants, but the US is specifically going after those protecting immigrants here illegally. Hence my more precise title.
- eesmith 9y agoThe HN guidelines recommend not changing the title unless it is misleading or linkbait. It sounds like you think that leaving out the "illegal" part is misleading, rather than a simplification used to make a shorter headline. If that's so, why did you clarify it as "illegal immigrant" rather than "undocumented immigrant"? That is the term used several times in the text, and it follows the AP Stylebook recommendation, described at https://blog.ap.org/announcements/illegal-immigrant-no-more https://blog.ap.org/announcements/illegal-immigrant-no-more . As you wish people to have a respectful manner appropriate to HN, surely you must agree that the clarification "undocumented immigrant" would be more respectful of the source material, yes? Given your view that "illegal immigration is bad" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16009093 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16009093 ), I cannot help but interpret your choice of inserting "illegal" here instead of "undocumented" as editorializing.