According to reports, under orders of the Biden administration, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued memoranda to their employees to stop using certain terms and replace them with others.
Examples include:
- "alien"—use "noncitizen" or "migrant"
- "alienage—use "noncitizenship"
- "illegal alien"—use "undocumented noncitizen," "undocumented individual," or "migrant"
- "unaccompanied alien children"—use "noncitizen unaccompanied children"
- "assimilation"— use "integration" or "civic integration"
- "immigrant assimilation"— use "immigrant integration"
Details:
- "U.S. Under Biden Will No Longer Call Migrants 'Illegal Aliens'," U.S. News, Apr. 19, 2021, https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2021-04-19/us-under-biden-will-no-longer-call-migrants-illegal-aliens
- "Under Joe Biden, United States Will No Longer Use the Term 'Illegal Aliens' to Describe Migrants," South China Morning Post, Apr. 20, 2021, https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3130203/under-joe-biden-united-states-will-no-longer-use
- "ICE to Stop Using the Term 'Illegal Alien' Referring to Immigrants," ABC News, Apr. 19, 2021, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ice-stop-term-illegal-alien-referring-immigrants/story?id=77165043&cid=clicksource_4380645_5_three_posts_card_hed
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