Back in 2017 when she was running for the Senate, candidate Kamala Harris made it clear in a tweet that “the term ‘illegal alien’ is offensive and we must stop treating undocumented workers as criminals in this country.” Now she’s failed her way up to vice president (how did that happen?) and the Biden-Harris administration is having U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services remove all instances of “alien” from its policy manual. It seems President Trump put the word back in, and now President Biden is taking it back out.
NEW: USCIS officials are planning to remove references to immigrants as “aliens” in the agency’s policy manual more than a year after the term was inserted into the guidance during the Trump administration, according to government documents.https://t.co/5OVOyp7i0L
— Hamed Aleaziz (@Haleaziz) March 30, 2021
“One DHS official told BuzzFeed News the removal of the references to ‘alien’ in the manual would create a less adversarial tone,” BuzzFeed reports. A USCIS spokesperson told Buzzfeed, “This change is designed to encourage more inclusive language in the agency’s outreach efforts, internal documents and in overall communication with stakeholders, partners, and the general public.”
You think that’s woke? Way back in 2013, the City of Seattle actually asked city employees to avoid the term “citizen” in favor of “resident.”
Back in 2019, under the leadership of @KenCuccinelli, USCIS proactively added 'alien' to the policy manual.
The term “alien” is currently used more than 1,700 times.
Now, officials are looking to replace “alien” with “noncitizen” as much as possible throughout the manual.
— Hamed Aleaziz (@Haleaziz) March 30, 2021
That will fix this. https://t.co/aVAc6TGrBA
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) March 30, 2021
Sure we have thousands of children in overflowing detention centers but at least we're not using the wrong name
— Sunny McSunnyface (@sunnyright) March 30, 2021
And just like that, the border crisis was solved. Congrats to everyone involved!
— Dr. Uncle Big Haus (@TheHaus69) March 30, 2021
I'm pretty sure 'alien' better describes any foreign national attempting to enter & estabilish residence in a country where they don't have permission to do either of those.
— JDL™ (@acceleratingJoe) March 30, 2021
I can't believe Trump coined the term "alien" and put it in all these documents.
— Broadened Standards (@BroadenedStand1) March 30, 2021
The term “alien” is the proper legal term as it is in the US Statute: https://t.co/rW5LoGHguy
— Al Mullen (@AllenMullen) March 30, 2021
This will definitely fix the problem.
— PrincessP (@PrincessCrypt0) March 30, 2021
Glad we addressed the key issues here. pic.twitter.com/On9TnFegKv
— QuadeGarrett (@quade_garrett) March 30, 2021
Everything the left does is theater, in a way.
— Samuel Bravo (@realsamuelbravo) March 30, 2021
Problem solved!
— ??? ?????????? (@dgoldwas) March 30, 2021
https://twitter.com/PrufrockM/status/1377015736095404034
I've been a Resident Alien since 1991. This isn't a Trump Administration thing. And pretending its offensive is more f*ckery from the Orwellian idiots who are useless at everything except authoritarianism and the oppression olympics.
— Nucly (@Nucly1) March 30, 2021
Related:
Center for Immigration Studies says Twitter is tagging the phrase 'illegal alien' as 'hateful content' https://t.co/UBklSVxxy6
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 11, 2018
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