On Tuesday, Rep. Ilhan Omar attacked President Trump for referring to illegal immigrants as illegal aliens, tweeting, “No one is an ‘alien.’” She continued by attacking the Department of Justice, writing, “The DOJ now mandates that public officials only use the term ‘illegal aliens.’ This is straight out of the demagogue’s playbook.” Finally, she concluded by quoting an official of Human Rights Watch asserting, “The word illegal alone, in the context of immigration, casts a dark and misleading cloud implying that immigrants who cross a border without authorization have no rights.”
Omar apparently is unaware that the U.S Code consistently refers to illegal immigrants as “aliens,” and so Trump and the Department of Justice are simply echoing the language of the U.S. Code. But let’s begin at the beginning.
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