This study harnesses journalism collections at Media Cloud, a project of the Center for Civic Media at the MIT Media Lab and Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, to test if the language used in immigration reporting at four of the nation’s largest newspapers has changed over the course of the Trump campaign and administration. We looked at the frequency of offensive and inaccurate terminology in news reporting, primarily the use of the term “illegal immigrant,” from 2014 to 2018.