The Biden Administration Is Ending The Use Of The Term “Illegal Alien” In Many Government Communications

Hamed Aleaziz for BuzzFeed News  reports on an important change in terminology by the Biden administration:

“Department of Homeland Security officials have been directed to stop using words such as `alien’ and `illegal alien’ from communications with the public or within the agency when referring to people who aren’t US citizens in an effort by the Biden administration to recast immigration terminology.

The planned wording change, recounted in a memo obtained by BuzzFeed News, is the latest flashpoint in a yearslong debate over the way immigrants are described in federal laws and by the agencies that oversee immigration. Axios earlier Tuesday reported on an email to staff about the memo.”

KJ