The Biden administration is ordering U.S. immigration enforcement agencies to change how they talk about immigrants.
The terms “illegal alien” and “assimilation” are out – replaced by “undocumented noncitizen” and “integration.”
The new guidance is laid out in a pair of detailed memos sent Monday by the heads of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, part of a broader effort by the Biden administration to roll back the previous administration’s hardline policies and build what they call a more “humane” immigration system.
“We set a tone and example for our country and partners across the world,” Troy Miller, the top official at Customs and Border Protection, said in his memo. “We enforce our nation’s laws while also maintaining the dignity of every individual with whom we interact. The words we use matter and will serve to further confer that dignity to those in our custody.”
The new guidance mirrors an earlier change in language at U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency in charge of legal immigration.
The word “alien” is used throughout U.S. immigration law. But the White House is seeking to replace it as part of a sweeping overhaul bill it sent to Congress.
The new guidance acknowledges that immigration authorities may still use the term when filling out required forms. But both memos emphasize that agents and officers should begin using the new terminology in internal communications and external correspondence immediately.
Under former President Donald Trump, ICE officers and agents had wide latitude to arrest anyone they encountered living in the country illegally, spreading fear and confusion in immigrant communities.
The Biden administration has placed sharp new limits on whom ICE can arrest, detain and deport.
“As an essential steward of a more secure and humane immigration system, ICE will set a tone and example for our country for years,” wrote Tae Johnson, ICE’s acting director in his memo announcing the new language guidance.
“The way that we choose to communicate is critical to enforcing the nation’s laws while respecting the humanity and dignity of those individuals with whom we interact.”
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“We enforce our nation’s laws while also maintaining the dignity of every individual with whom we interact. The words we use matter and will serve to further confer that dignity to those in our custody.”
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1. the LAW uses the term ‘illegal’ for any act against the law, and the term ‘alien’ for any non-citizen – therefore, illegal alien is the appropriate legal term
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2. Dignity and respect are afforded to those who deserve it – people who enter our country knowingly and illegally show contempt for our land and our laws – IMHO, it is wrong to mandate dignity to those who blatantly disrespect the American people.
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3. Words do matter – but when it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, calling it a lion does not confer dignity; it condones and encourages the wrongful behavior
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I wonder if the woke puppet Betrayal Biden will also order the U,S, citizens to not call a murderer a “murderer” or a Rapist a “rapist” or a thief a “thief” because it might hurt their widdle feewings and does not show dignity to these murderers, rapists, and thieves??
Now under the reign of the puppet Biden cabal, we are supposed to show respect and dignity to criminals and those who do not follow our laws.
Language matters…… airheaded, birdbrained, bonehead, boneheaded, brain-dead, brainless, bubbleheaded, chuckleheaded, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dopey (also dopy), dorky [slang], dull, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, gormless [chiefly British], half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), lunkheaded, mindless, oafish, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, senseless, simple, slow, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, thick, thickheaded, thick-witted, unintelligent, unsmart, vacuous, weak-minded, witless……government bureaucrats
Beijing Biden can shove his new terms where the sun don’t shine.. I will NEVER use them.. they ARE “ILLEGAL ALIENS” as long as they entered our country illegally…
This NIGHTMARE in our white house and his puppet masters need to SHUT UP!!!! I have NO respect for them … they are a total disgrace to our country
Just more proof biden hates America
SINCE every damnable leftist out there, seems to CONSISTENTLY prove they care NOT what the law says or is, why would they worry here?
Good review! Since illegal alien use is prohibited the term Criminal invader is a workable, accurate term that hopefully will become a note on official documents. Another term is unwelcomed foreign intruder.
I doubt either would get used.. They are still too “harsh”.
I like both of your suggestions, and they are both very ACCURATE !
Well, if Biden wants to set the language for “illegal aliens”, then WE will set the language for HIM: Commander-in-THIEF
The term “Free and Fair Elections” will NOT be used (as long as Democrats continue to CHEAT)!
The term “Mostly Peaceful” will not be used with respect to Antifa or BLM (or Democrat politicians who embrace those TERROR groups)!
The list is endless of terms WE should refuse to accept!
I agree, we have our own terminology and we will use it!
Hard to me the commander in thief, WHEN HE IS NO IN command of anything! Let alone his own mind.
Since we are officially no longer allowed to use the word “alien” or any phrase in which that word appears, does this now mean that in order to be politically-correct we must refer to occupants of UFOs as undocumented extra-terrestrial visitors?
Are rapists now ‘unauthorized sexual addicts”. Bank robbers as “uncertified withdrawl experts”?
Your comment was very clever !
The worst abuse of terminology for illegals is calling their kids “dreamers” when those dreams are purchased at the cost of American kids’ dreams. Illegals and their kids soaking up benefits to which they are not entitled are nightmares for American taxpayers. Time for a taxpayer revolt to remind the Dem-RINO Congress that they are NOT elected by Mexicans to look after Mexican interests though they behave that way.
Those are the quotes of the day. “Dreamers” dreaming up ways to take the benefits and opportunities of American kids.
And the best: ….remind the demo-rino congress they are not elected by mexicans to look after mexicans…..!!!
Bravo Minaka!
THEY may be dreamers. BUT THEY ARE IMO a nightmare for AMERICAN citizens!
AMEN!!!! I am so sick of these D*MN politicians catering to the illegal aliens while they kick the American people in the teeth…
IF they love foreigners so damn much, LET THEM RESIGN THEIR us citizenship and get the glug out of this nation, and move to one they love more.. China perhaps!
Remember, it is the DEMOCRAT Politicians that are catering to the Illegal Aliens, NOT the Republicans ! The Democrats only care about VOTES, NOT the American people, and THAT is the reason they are so much in favor of these Illegals !
Are you referring to the “Nighmarers” as “Dreamers?”
Hey Joe Criminal Crime Family, I will use the word illegal alien and I do not care what you politically correct, woke, you do not know what genders you are, communist airheads want!!! Joe Criminal, go to your safe space with Jill and play with your gender neutral Barbie Doll, because I have offended you, using the term “illegal alien”.
While i will continue to use the phrase ILLEGAL INVADER…
Well let’s see the word illegal alien are now Non Citizens, so that would mean Federal and state benefits that are given to Citizens, these people should not be allowed to receive. So all this welfare, food benefits, health care and more they should not be receiving.
IF anything, the left will try to use this bull as a reason to EXPAND THE list of govt handouts and benefits, to these criminals.. ALL WHILE reducing the # of actual americans who get them.
More and more, its looking like BEING a citizen is a BURDEN rather than a benefit.
Pretender Biden can stand in front of a mirror if he is in search of an “Admiring Audience” and Speak to himself all the words he wants to hear and all the words his “Handlers”have allowed him to use despite the many times he has displayed his “Foot in mouth” affliction by going “Off Script” “We the People” don’t ascribe to changing the “English language” as it was taught to us as we were educated.
They’re making these changes for one reason and one reason only: To do some trolling against Trump supporters and other conservatives.
Changing the name does NOT change what it is……
IN their fit they have for brains, it does.
ABSOLUTELY… As long as they are in our country illegally,… THEY ARE ILLEGAL ALIENS!!!!!! PERIOD!!!!!
“The words we use matter . . . ”
Dam* right they do, and that’s why the Commiecrats keep changing the language. It’s a weapon used to manipulate the sheeps’ attitudes. It’s the Leftists’ modus operandi: control the language; move the goal posts; change the game rules.
A group of cattle is a herd; a group of sheep is a flock. If the word for collecting and driving cattle is ‘herding,’ then the word for collecting and driving sheep should be, ‘flocking.’ The Corruptocrats are definitely flocking the American sheep—without even the benefit of a kiss or a reach-around. America now has some of the most flocked-up sheep on the planet.
I just heard on TV this morning. What is the difference between a Democrat and a communist? The spelling.
Before anyone says anything, I am first generation citizen and my parents worked on permits until they PAID for the honor and privilege of being citizens. This was done before my sister and I were born as my parents always said: SIN PAPELES AQUI NOMAS SOMOS MOJADOS. They were always here on a permit, went back to Mexico when it expired but continued on permits until they had enough money saved to PAY FOR CITIZENSHIP. Why can’t all that break our laws by coming across without legal permission understand this.
TOO BAD – BEIJING BIDEN… They ARE “ILLEGAL ALIENS” !!!! I don’t care what you want them to be called… You can call them what you want.. THEY ARE ILLEGAL ALIENS – THEY ARE LAW BREAKERS WITH NO RESPECT FOR OUR COUNTRY, NO RESPECT FOR OUR LAWS AND NO RESPECT FOR THE CITIZENS WHO LIVE HERE!!!!!! There is NO WAY I am calling them something that they are NOT…
ILLEGAL = doing something against the laws…
ALIEN = Some one from another country who is NOT a citizen of the country they are in..
PROPER TERM FOR THEM IS “ILLEGAL ALIENS” If they don’t like being called illegal aliens.. they can go home and come legally!!!
So are the underlings going to mind, to heed, to call the illegals, what ever?
IF they don’t, they will probably get fired.
These people attended some of the most elite colleges and universities in this country. Schools historically noted for their high standards as well as their high tuition. Is this representative of the caliber of graduates that they put out? None of them are math geniuses—look at the national debt and the endless spending sprees they engage in. They obviously do not understand the purpose of a dictionary and its place in the English language. They are totally ignorant regarding the history of this country—they want to condemn past events and practices while ignoring the strides that have been made in righting any wrongs that have occurred—they want to take out what they don’t like and rewrite it to suit their purposes whether it is accurate or not/
Truth can be abrasive and they do not want to have to deal with reality. Men and women aren’t what they appear to be so they can now identify with what they choose to believe they are; abortion isn’t about human life—it is the elimination of an inconvenient biological mass; illegal immigrants are neither illegal nor immigrants—how can we be so insensitive?; everything is racist—their overworked word of choice. And the diplomas hang on the wall while the brainless graduates fall all over themselves to impress one another while imposing their assumed superiority over the rest of us.
I firmly believe, their end goal is to TOTALLY RE-imagine every word in the dictionary to THEIR AGENDA..
Simple solution. Since a person “can’t be illegal.” call them Criminal aliens. A person can be a criminal and every one of them is since they broke the law by entering the country illegally.