"It's hard to use words that one side or the other doesn't say that's the wrong word to use or that is the right word to use," said Leo Chavez, an anthropology professor at the University of California at Irvine who studies media representation of immigration. "It's such a politicized discussion right now that it's hard to come up with words that are neutral."

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