In Joe Biden's America, don't you dare use the "A" word.

exGOPer said:
Snowflakes getting triggered by words, Trumptards are the dumbest.
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Democrats are the ones banning speech and don't want illegal aliens being called illegal aliens, calling everything they don't like "hate speech"

Are you stupid, incapable of reading or both?

Also how do you become an exGOPer? That's like taking the red pill then going back to the blue pill to live in ignorance, you just can't do it
 
I never liked that word Alien anyway....they are not people from another planet, just another country.

Undocumented is the most relevant description
 
MoneyMatthew said:
U.S. immigration agencies drop use of terms like "illegal alien" and "assimilation"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigr...discard/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=116599439

The leaders of the two U.S. immigration enforcement agencies on Monday directed staff to use words like "noncitizen" and "integration" instead of "alien" and "assimilation" as part of a Biden administration effort to discard immigration terms viewed as dehumanizing, according to memos obtained by CBS News.

Troy Miller and Tae Johnson, the interim heads of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), issued separate memos outlining new guidelines governing the use of certain immigration terms in internal and external communications, like public statements.

The memos instruct ICE and CBP employees to use "migrant" or "noncitizen" instead of "alien." The latter term is found in U.S. law, where it is used to refer to a wide-ranging group of immigrants, from those without legal permission to be in the country, to green card holders. Advocates have long derided the term, saying it has contributed to the dehumanization of immigrants.

The Washington Post, also direct staff to discontinue the use of "assimilation," which critics say connotes the outright rejection of immigrants' culture and heritage. ICE and CBP employees were instructed on Monday to refer to the process as "integration."

The objective, the CBP and ICE leaders said, is to promote "inclusive language" that reflects the Biden administration's preferred immigration lexicon. Miller, the top CBP official, said his agency sets a "tone and example for our country and partners across the world."


"We enforce our nation's laws while also maintaining the dignity of every individual with whom we interact," Miller wrote in his memo. "The words we use matter and will serve to further confer that dignity to those in our custody."

Johnson, the head of ICE, echoed Miller's sentiment, calling his agency an "essential steward of a more secure and humane immigration system."

"The way that we choose to communicate is critical to enforcing our nation's laws while respecting the humanity and dignity of those individuals with whom we interact," Johnson said.

The immigration bill President Biden sent to Congress, apart from legalizing millions of immigrants living in the U.S. without authorization, would remove the term "alien" from U.S. laws and replace it with noncitizen.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) employees received similar guidance on terminology earlier this year. They have also been asked to help create a new agency mission statement, which the Trump administration changed in 2018 to remove the phrase "nation of immigrants."

ICE is in charge of immigration detention, deportations and arrests in the interior of the country. CBP, on the other hand, intercepts and detains migrants and asylum-seekers along U.S. borders.

While officials at the Department of Homeland Security, USCIS and ICE have generally avoided using "alien" in public documents since Mr. Biden's inauguration, CBP has continued to issue press releases that include the term or variations of it. Border Patrol officials also frequently use the term on social media.

Ed O'Kefee contributed to this report.
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Too lengthy to read and consider, but I got the main gist.
 
El OchoCinco said:
I never liked that word Alien anyway....they are not people from another planet, just another country.

Undocumented is the most relevant description
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illegal, not undocumented

undocumented implies that they are here legally, but just not documented, however that is not possible because if they are here legally they would be documented
 
AR15 said:
illegal, not undocumented

undocumented implies that they are here legally, but just not documented, however that is not possible because if they are here legally they would be documented
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If you are here undocumented then you are in violation of the law. That is where the term undocumented came from because it accurately describes the situation. If you don't need a specific visa, then you can come here legally for 90 days under an implied tourist visa. There are plenty of Mexicans, Hondurans, Nicaraguans etc. that FLY in to the U.S. under a proper visa, they did not enter illegally.

They came in the country legally like a significant amount of people do (far far more than the numbers that cross the southern border). Their entry into the country was NOT illegal.

Understanding this will lead to better immigration reform and enforcement instead of spending all dollars on a wall that addresses 20% of the problem.

However the majority simply overstay their tourist visa and their presence is no longer under a legal document.... thus undocumented. Calling them illegal mistates the legal status because most of them entered legally. But by overstaying they have violated the terms of their visa and no longer are legally here under a valid document.


Visa overstays have outnumbered people who enter the country illegally at the Southern border every year since 2007, according to a report by the Center for Migration Studies. The report's authors estimate that the number of total visa overstays was 600,000 more than the total number of border crossers and that in 2014, visa overstays accounted for two-thirds of all new undocumented immigrants.
 
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El OchoCinco said:
If you are here undocumented then you are in violation of the law. That is where the term undocumented came from because it accurately describes the situation. If you don't need a specific visa, then you can come here legally for 90 days under an implied tourist visa. There are plenty of Mexicans, Hondurans, Nicaraguans etc. that FLY in to the U.S. under a proper visa, they did not enter illegally.

They came in the country legally like a significant amount of people do (far far more than the numbers that cross the southern border). Their entry into the country was NOT illegal.

Understanding this will lead to better immigration reform and enforcement instead of spending all dollars on a wall that addresses 20% of the problem.

However the majority simply overstay their tourist visa and their presence is no longer under a legal document.... thus undocumented. Calling them illegal mistates the legal status because most of them entered legally. But by overstaying they have violated the terms of their visa and no longer are legally here under a valid document.
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Just because they came here legally and overstayed their welcome doesn’t mean they’re not illegal
 
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