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Commissioner: EU should 'eradicate' the term 'illegal immigrant'
By EUobserver
EU home affairs commissioner, the Swedish politician Cecilia Malmstrom has applauded the AP news agency for dropping the term "illegal immigrant" from its stylebook. "The EU should follow. I've worked to eradicate the term 'illegal immigrant' from all commission docs. No human being is 'illegal,' ever," she tweeted on Thursday.