Some illegal border crossers board a van in Texas this March.
Recently, the Biden administration has ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials to stop using the terms “illegal alien,” “alien” and “assimilation,” among other terms.
According to a memo obtained by the Epoch Times, the Biden administration requested that the term “alien” be replaced with “noncitizen” or “migrant,” and that the term “alien” be replaced with “immigrant. “It also asked that the word “assimilation” be replaced with “integration” or “civic The Biden administration also called for replacing the word “assimilation” with “integration” or “civic integration. In addition, the Biden administration has asked law enforcement officials to refer to “undocumented aliens” as “undocumented noncitizen,” “undocumented individuals” as “undocumented individuals,” and “undocumented individuals” as “undocumented individuals. “undocumented individual” or “migrant.
Troy Miller, acting head of Customs and Border Protection, said in the memo, “The terms we use are important and will help further dignify those in our custody.” Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Tae Johnson made similar comments.
Opponents of the order, however, say the term “undocumented” does not appropriately describe “illegal immigrants” who have in fact crossed the border and remain in the United States illegally. immigrants.
According to the White House, Biden proposed to Congress on his first day as president to remove the word “alien” from federal immigration law and replace it with “noncitizen.
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