Latino lawmakers, who were upset over NBC’s choice to have polarizing presidential candidate Donald Trump host “Saturday Night Live,” have come away from a meeting with top NBC News executives feeling more offended.

As Politico reports, NBC News President Deborah Turness made major faux pas by referring to undocumented immigrants as “illegals," a term that is taken as an offensive pejorative by many in the Latino community.

While describing an exchange between NBC News and their Spanish-language network Telemundo, Turness mentioned coverage of Pope Francis’ recent visit to the U.S. and his talk with a young girl who was afraid her parents would be deported due to the fact that they were “illegals.”

Rep. Juan Vargas, D-Calif., stopped Turness as she was speaking to inform her of her mistake.

“I’m going to stop you right there,” Vargas said. “We use the term undocumented immigrants.”

Turness, a British journalist who has been the head of NBC News since 2013, apologized, but to Vargas, the poor word choice seemed indicative of a lack of understanding by NBC News.

“She was saying how they’ve done all these great things and then boom, she said ‘illegals,’” Vargas later said.

Turness tried to ease tensions by speaking Spanish.

“We love the Hispanic community ... Yo hablo español,” Turness added.

Six members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, as well as additional aides, were in the meeting, and several left angrier than when they arrived.

“There was a lot of frustration in the room,” said Democratic Rep. Tony Cárdenas, who took issue with the executives for skirting around the Trump issue by claiming none of the executives for the entertainment division were present at the meeting. “It was a cop out. It was disingenuous," he added.

The immigration issue has become a volatile political argument in the upcoming presidential election.