"Transplant" is certainly not any kind of mainstream left term in the USA, and this is the first time I have ever heard the claim. The left counterpart of the right's "illegal immigrant" is instead "undocumented immigrant" vel sim.

It is amusing to talk to actual border officials, because the term in their lingo for people running across from Mexico is usually simply "alien", which always makes me think of The X-Files theme tune.

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arjie 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Haha, I have an Alien Number so I'm familiar with that. "Transplant" as the word for "immigrant" is pretty common in coastal California. Here are a few examples that should illustrate:

* The Bold Italic[0] - a popular San Francisco essay magazine talking about transplants

* Eric Adams is quoted by the WaPo prior to announcing his candidacy for mayor[1] (he was eventually elected mayor):

> “Go back to Iowa,” Adams, who is expected to be a top Democratic contender in New York’s 2021 mayoral race, told transplants. “You go back to Ohio! New York City belongs to the people that [were] here and made New York City what it is.”

* Great Replacement Theory is reframed[2]:

> ...multi-decades-old Black businesses and Black-owned or traditionally Black folk-rented homes are being replaced by a new population–some call them transplants.

I think it's pretty common lingo these days on the left. If you ask an LLM what a "transplant" is in the context of people, it can easily describe the term[3]. I say that only to say that it is commonly enough used as such that it is recognizable.

0: https://www.thebolditalic.com/the-last-black-man-in-san-fran...

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/01/21/adams-brook...

2: https://ourtimepress.com/say-it-aint-so-developers-target-sm...

3: https://claude.ai/share/bf6cfb17-314a-4e4b-b3eb-e99bbed07e86

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TFNA 3 hours ago | parent [-]

It is OK to simply admit that you didn't understand the context in which "transplant" was used and its (ir)relevance to this particular thread. To post three separate replies where you are reaching for a way to avoid admitting this by concocting some fantastical left-right difference, is not convincing anyone otherwise.

	▲	arjie 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I am simply conversing with people who are directly responding to me. But I hear you, and we will likely not encounter each other again on this site.

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delecti 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> It is amusing to talk to actual border officials, because the term in their lingo for people running across from Mexico is usually simply "alien", which always makes me think of The X-Files theme tune.

Along similar lines, it makes me think of Men in Black.