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Report: Biden Administration Says No More Using ‘Illegal,’ ‘Alien.’ Use ‘Undocumented,’ ‘Non-Citizen.’

Hank Berrien
Report: Biden Administration Says No More Using ‘Illegal,’ ‘Alien.’ Use ‘Undocumented,’ ‘Non-Citizen.’
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The Biden administration is reportedly instructing administration workers to use new language when referring to illegal immigrants: terms such as “alien” and “illegal” are to be jettisoned; “alien” to be replaced by “noncitizen” or “individual” and “illegal” to be replaced by “undocumented.”

Axios reports that acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Tracy Renaud recently signed a memo to employees urging them to utilize “more inclusive language in the agency’s outreach efforts, internal documents and in overall communication with stakeholders, partners and the general public.”

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