Biden Administration Reportedly Instructs Officials To End Use Of Terms ‘Alien’ and ‘Illegal Aliens’
Accroding to The Hill and Buzzfeed News, the Biden administration is reportedly instructing officials to use “more inclusive” language when talking about immigration.
The news site reports that acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Tracy Renaud recently signed a memo to workers, where she encouraged the “more inclusive language in the agency’s outreach efforts, internal documents and in overall communication with stakeholders, partners and the general public,” according to a review by Axios.
Instead, they are being asked to use the term “noncitizen” to describe immigrants. Of course, the new move is a big turn from Donald Trump’s hard-line policies and harsh criticism toward those crossing into the U.S. As it was previously reported, the former president and his team often referred to undocumented immigrants as “illegal aliens” and even classified border crossing as an “invasion.”
In addition to this, the Daily Mail notes that other changes from Biden’s administration include using “undocumented noncitizen” or “undocumented individual” and using “integration or civic integration” instead of “assimilation.”
This change also comes as Biden officially stopped the Pentagon from sending any more funds to the construction of Trump’s southern border wall.
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