Posted on 01/23/2021 8:59:58 AM PST by TigerClaws
President Joe Biden wants to remove the word "alien" from US immigration law as a symbolic gesture to acknowledge the US "as a nation of immigrants."
In a summary of his immigration bill, Biden said he planned to replace the word with "noncitizen."
"The language change on the first day of this administration, with Kamala Harris the daughter of immigrants, to me it's not just symbolic ... it's foundational," Jose Antonio Vargas, a journalist and undocumented immigrant, told CNN.
The US Code defines an "alien" as anyone who's "not a citizen or national of the United States."
Several local jurisdictions have modified the words used to describe immigrants. In 2015, then-Gov. Jerry Brown of California signed a bill to remove the word "alien" from the state's labor code.
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In 2019, New York City banned the term "illegal alien" when it's used "with intent to demean, humiliate or harass a person."
As president, Donald Trump used the term frequently, especially as he played up baseless claims about immigrants and immigration.
CNN reported that Trump used the term at least five times while speaking at the US-Mexico border last week.
"We were in the Trump administration the perennial boogeyman," Vargas told CNN. "Whenever Trump was in trouble, he started talking about the 'illegals' and talking about the border."
Biden, who took office on Wednesday, has already made immigration a priority. He issued an executive order revoking the ban on travel from majority-Muslim countries. He also unveiled a plan to give farmworkers permanent residency and to give young immigrants a pathway to citizenship.
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Blacks voting for Biden will see themselves replaced by Hispanics in jobs and political power.
Good idea. “Wretched refuse” has a better ring to it.
Oh, well, bloody good, then. As long as it’s symbolic.
The word ‘alien’ is necessary for discussion of the Natural Born Citizen term found in our US Constitution. Besides, illegal alien takes less letters than ‘undocumented immigrant’, which is an oxymoron because all our immigrants have documents from starting our naturalization process.
And yes, Kamala Harris is an unnatural born citizen of the US, or ‘alien’. “... there can be no doubt that a person born in the US of citizen parents is a natural born citizen”.
We want to change all written language refernces in federal documents and law from President to “resident.”
There are never any symbolic gestures to reframe America from DemocRats. Each so called gesture, get backed up by a new or old vicious governmental agency.
I use the term Illegal Invaders.
Immigrants are invited, Invaders are repelled.
One more proof at how anti-Black Biden is—a white supremacist racist as his OWN VP called him at the debates.
They are all STATISTS. Blacks should be screaming at Biden.
And now we know why traditional religious blacks/professionals supported Trump. No basis whatsoever in the claims made against him.
Remember Richard Spencer (white alt-right Nazi)- ENDORSED Biden. As all good Southie Boston bigot racists did and do.
I think it’s time to look at moving out the country. Looking at Costa Rica. I think the US has now slipped to become this “Babylon the Great” from Scriptures and it about to fall hard.
Another day another act of flat out treason by a democrap. He damn well knows in those crowds of illegals are hardcore enemies of the USA and he is actively assisting them. He better pray none of them commit an act of terror that kills thousands otherwise Mitch McConnell will say nothing.
Doesn’t this fool, who was trained as a lawyer, know that in the LAW, words aren’t symbolic???
People who cross the border may be non-citizens, but the HarrisXiden regime is still illegal.
Are we sure Kamee-la is not a Space Alien?
“ Can you still identify as an alien?”
Yes, only if you arrive in a UFO..........
America is not a land of immigrants. We are a nation of CITIZENS. Invaders are not welcome.
“Alien” is a Greek word meaning “outsider”. That’s all. What’s so terrible?
Remember the thrilling JFK speech in Berlin when he said in German “I am a Berliner”?
Biden can now get the new definition through:
I am an American citizen-—
which will legally apply to ALL the people around the globe. With full taxpayer paid entitlements. No need to cross our borders. Like a big New Year’s Eve celebration.
“undocumented” migrants have papers that they obtain illegally online or at flea markets.
There are also corrupt department of public safety employees who will knowingly sell legitimate approved documentation to illegal immigrants who are provided falsified names and identities.
A woman who got caught doing this in Tennessee after 9/11 was murdered while out on bond so she wouldn’t talk.
>>which will legally apply to ALL the people around the globe. With full taxpayer paid entitlements.
If you have been following the trends, these days everyone is claiming “DUAL” citizenship even though foreign nationals are supposed to give up their claims to their old nationality when they become official US citizens.
And there are FReepers who think that they should be permitted to vote in both countries’ elections.
Hello Estados Stupidos.
To invalidate the “Alien and Sedition” act
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