She's half-right: drop the "radical" from Islamic terrorism — there's no need for redundancy

Harris Urges End to Terms 'Radical Islamic Terrorism,' 'Illegal Alien'

'Words have meaning,' Harris told crowd at Islamic Center of Southern California

Vice President Kamala Harris said the public should no longer use the terms "radical Islamic terrorism" and "illegal alien" during a speech she gave at a Los Angeles mosque in July 2016.

"We must have the courage* to object when they use that term, ‘radical Islamic terrorism,’ which ignores how Muslims have overwhelmingly been the greatest victims of terror," she told the crowd at the Islamic Center of Southern California. "We must also have the courage* to reject the term ‘illegal alien.’"

*Is “Courage” really required to reject these terms? Not on any campus or liberal enclave I’m aware of or, for that matter, anywhere in America; this isn’t Tehran or Caracas, after all.

Muslims are terrorists and, as Kampallawalla Ding Dong pointed out, they have, and continue to slaughter their fellow devotees by the hundreds of thousands throughout Africa and the Middle East. Nothing “radical” about these people, they’re just following the dictates of their hero.

As for illegal aliens (a term incorporated in federal law), the millions of newcomers the Biden administration has ushered into our country, are economic refugees, a category of invaders explicitly denied refugee status by that same federal law. We provisionally allow entry to refugees who claim a fear of political persecution, not a desire to go on welfare, and an alien who falsely claims such a fear in order to gain entry is committing an illegal act.

8 U.S. Code § 1325 - Improper entry by alien

Any alien who (1) enters or attempts to enter the United States at any time or place other than as designated by immigration officers, or (2) eludes examination or inspection by immigration officers, or (3) attempts to enter or obtains entry to the United States by a willfully false or misleading representation or the willful concealment of a material fact, shall, for the first commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both, and, for a subsequent commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18, or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.