Do they mean immigrants or illegal immigrants? Do they mean citizens, permanent residents, or some other status?
I'm very anti-surveillance, this shouldn't be allowed, but I feel like a lot of articles are being disingenuous by means of this omission. Is this a problem that only affects immigrants? It doesn't seem that way to me, but by presenting it that way they knowingly divide people and thus make it less likely that a group will prevent or reverse this action. These are the types of articles I'd write if I wanted this issue to drop off the radar of a large portion of the voting population.
Many of the news-reporting institutions who report negative things about US government enforcement of immigration law have an ideological problem with the existence of laws restricting immigration to first-world countries like the US; and one of the ways this manifests itself is by referring to people who are negatively affected by US government enforcement of immigration law as "immigrants", and deliberately avoiding specifying whether those people are illegal immigrants, legal immigrants, permanent residents, etc.
I'm very anti-surveillance, this shouldn't be allowed, but I feel like a lot of articles are being disingenuous by means of this omission. Is this a problem that only affects immigrants? It doesn't seem that way to me, but by presenting it that way they knowingly divide people and thus make it less likely that a group will prevent or reverse this action. These are the types of articles I'd write if I wanted this issue to drop off the radar of a large portion of the voting population.