{"id":20626,"date":"2026-03-25T12:19:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/?p=20626"},"modified":"2026-03-25T12:21:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:21:56","slug":"in-2013-the-ap-style-guide-banned-reference-to-illegal-immigrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2026\/03\/25\/in-2013-the-ap-style-guide-banned-reference-to-illegal-immigrant\/","title":{"rendered":"In 2013, the AP Style Guide banned reference to &#8220;illegal immigrant&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apstylebook.com\/blog_posts\/1\">Associated Press Stylebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They also do not use &#8220;undocumented<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>illegal immigration<\/strong>&nbsp;Entering or residing in a country in violation of civil or criminal law. Except in direct quotes essential to the story, use&nbsp;<em>illegal<\/em>&nbsp;only to refer to an action, not a person:&nbsp;<em>illegal immigration<\/em>, but not&nbsp;<em>illegal immigrant<\/em>. Acceptable variations include&nbsp;<em>living in<\/em>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<em>entering a country illegally<\/em>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<em>without legal permission.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Except in direct quotations, do not use the terms&nbsp;<em>illegal alien<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>an illegal<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>illegals<\/em>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<em>undocumented<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do not describe people as violating immigration laws without attribution.&#8221; either.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Also says that children should never be described as having entered the country illegally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I looked this up in reference to this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/loyola-student-newspaper-apologizes-calling-suspected-murderer-sheridan-gorman-illegal-immigrant\">Loyola Phoenix apologizes for &#8216;illegal immigrant&#8217; label in murder post | Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting &#8211; says its okay to say &#8220;without legal permission&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20629,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20626\/revisions\/20629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}