Conservative strategist Steve Guest took to X on Tuesday to shed light on a seemingly coordinated effort by various legacy media outlets to once again tweak language describing illegal immigrants.

Guest’s post was published early in the day on Tuesday and featured screenshots of several publications, including The Washington Post, NPR, The New York Times, and Axios, all referring to illegal aliens as “unauthorized immigrants.”

In a follow-up post in the same thread, he pointed out how this transformation of language concerning those who enter the country illegally is a lot like “newspeak” from George Orwell’s popular novel, “1984.”

The totalitarian regime in the novel keeps the people under control, reducing their vocabulary and simplifying concepts to eliminate nuance. A prime example is how they take the word “bad” and change it to “ungood.”

The term “newspeak” is used often in America to refer to the mainstream media or government sanitizing reality with ridiculous and vague euphemisms like “unauthorized immigrant.” It’s a term, experts believe, that’s designed to soften the crime these individuals commit by coming across the border without legal permission.

Another user in the X thread provided a satirical example of how the left attempts to sanitize language to make criminals sound less offensive by saying those who steal aren’t thieves, they’re “unauthorized borrowers with no intent to return.”

Another responded by saying they aren’t drug dealers, they’re “unauthorized pharmacists.”

Critics of the ever-in-flux language the media creates for illegal immigrants believe the reason Democrats are so concerned with crafting a more sympathetic image for these individuals is because they want to be seen publicly standing up for them, fighting for them to be here, in order to make them Democrat voters in upcoming elections.

Immigration isn’t the only area of policy that has seen changes to language over the years. Democrats now use terms and phrases like “social support” or “public benefits” instead of “welfare” or “public assistance,” because they think doing so avoids the stigma that is often attached to those who are using government programs.

According to conservatives, this makes the expansion of these entitlements more politically acceptable.

In 2020, the mainstream media often referred to the violent riots, fires, and looting of major cities as “mostly peaceful protests,” even though there was a large amount of video evidence to the contrary. Right-wing pundits believed this was an effort to minimize left-wing violence.