jet people
n.pl.— «Nothing draconian happens to the thousands of white visa overstayers who arrive by plane. Jet people good, boat people bad. What hypocrisy!» —“Let Them Stay” by John Passant Workers Online (Sydney, Australia) Nov. 26, 1999. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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