President Biden’s immigration bill would change ‘alien’ to ‘non-citizen’ in US law – the latest step in the fight over language related to immigration and immigrants.
The Biden government unveils the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021, which will include a number of drastic measures, such as an eight-year path to citizenship for illegal immigrants and immediate green cards for deferred action for oncoming children (DACA) and temporary protected status (TPS )) recipients.
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Although the text of the bill has not yet been released, a fact sheet issued by Biden’s transition team before the inauguration said the bill would remove the word ‘foreigner’ from immigration laws and replace it with ‘non-citizen’. .
The fact sheet said the move “recognizes America as a nation of immigrants.”
Immigration activists and lawmakers have long struggled with the language associated with immigration. Many now do not refer to illegal immigrants, but to “undocumented” immigrants.
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‘Alien’ has long been used in American law and immigration law as a whole, but liberal activists and cities have pushed back. New York City announced last year that it would no longer refer to ‘foreigners’ or ‘illegal immigrants’.
Meanwhile, during the Trump administration, there were also fights over language of conservatives.
BuzzFeed News reported in 2019 that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) plans to change all references to the term ‘foreigner’ in the agency’s policy manual to ‘foreigner’.
A USCIS spokesman told the outline that it complied with the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
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“Under the INA, the term ‘alien’ means ‘any person who is not a citizen or citizen of the United States,'” they said.
Biden has already made a number of important moves on immigration by placing a moratorium on deportations of 100 days, stopping the financing of the wall and reversing the travel ban in the Trump era.