In his state of the union address, President Joe Biden broke an unspoken progressive politics rule by referring to the Venezuelan migrant suspected of killing Laken Riley, the Georgia student killed late last month, as an 'illegal.'
And that had WWL's Newell Normand wondering about the value of semantics.
"These progressive commandments are getting on onerous, they're getting burdensome, and to what end, really? Normand said.
In his speech, Biden said, "An innocent young woman who was killed. By an illegal. That’s right. But how many of thousands of people are being killed by legals?”
Later, Biden said he should not have used the word “illegal.”
“An undocumented person. I shouldn’t have used illegal, it’s undocumented,” Biden told MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart. “And look, when I spoke about the difference between Trump and me, one of the things I talked about in the border was his, the way he talks about vermin, the way he talks about these people polluting the blood. I talked about what I’m not going to do. What I won’t do.”
“I’m not going to treat any, any, any of these people with disrespect. Look, they built the country. The reason our economy is growing. We have to control the border and more orderly flow, but I don’t share his view at all,” Biden continued.
“So, you regret using that word?” Capehart asked.
“Yes,” Biden responded.
Normand wasn't having it.
"This is all about deflection, this is all about denying what's actually happening at the border," Normand said.