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As a symbolic gesture to reframe America as a land of immigrants, Biden wants to remove the word 'alien' from immigration laws
Business Insider ^

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.

Read more: SCOOP: Trump taps his former chief of staff and impeachment lawyers as the gatekeepers to his papers after his presidency

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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1984; bidenorders; businessstuff; executivefiat; newbidenorder; newspeak
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Can you still identify as an alien?

Blacks voting for Biden will see themselves replaced by Hispanics in jobs and political power.

1 posted on 01/23/2021 8:59:58 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Good idea. “Wretched refuse” has a better ring to it.


2 posted on 01/23/2021 9:02:22 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: TigerClaws

Oh, well, bloody good, then. As long as it’s symbolic.


3 posted on 01/23/2021 9:05:22 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: TigerClaws

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”.


4 posted on 01/23/2021 9:07:37 AM PST by RideForever (We are born to be tested ...)
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To: TigerClaws

We want to change all written language refernces in federal documents and law from President to “resident.”


5 posted on 01/23/2021 9:08:24 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: TigerClaws

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.


6 posted on 01/23/2021 9:10:34 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Law & order took the last train out of DC and America on election/coup/night, Tues., Nov. 03, 2020!)
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To: TigerClaws

I use the term Illegal Invaders.

Immigrants are invited, Invaders are repelled.


7 posted on 01/23/2021 9:11:50 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Don't blame me, I Voted for the guy who actually Won the 2020 Presidential Election...)
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To: TigerClaws

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.


8 posted on 01/23/2021 9:12:47 AM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: TigerClaws

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.


9 posted on 01/23/2021 9:13:44 AM PST by realcleanguy
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To: TigerClaws

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.


10 posted on 01/23/2021 9:14:20 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: TigerClaws

Doesn’t this fool, who was trained as a lawyer, know that in the LAW, words aren’t symbolic???


11 posted on 01/23/2021 9:17:08 AM PST by Spirit of Liberty (Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. ~ Plato)
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To: TigerClaws

People who cross the border may be non-citizens, but the HarrisXiden regime is still illegal.


12 posted on 01/23/2021 9:17:25 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: TigerClaws

Are we sure Kamee-la is not a Space Alien?


13 posted on 01/23/2021 9:17:39 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: TigerClaws

“ Can you still identify as an alien?”

Yes, only if you arrive in a UFO..........


14 posted on 01/23/2021 9:18:29 AM PST by David Chase
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To: TigerClaws

America is not a land of immigrants. We are a nation of CITIZENS. Invaders are not welcome.


15 posted on 01/23/2021 9:19:15 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: TigerClaws

“Alien” is a Greek word meaning “outsider”. That’s all. What’s so terrible?


16 posted on 01/23/2021 9:21:49 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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To: Texas Eagle

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.


17 posted on 01/23/2021 9:22:50 AM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: RideForever

“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.


18 posted on 01/23/2021 9:23:46 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: frank ballenger

>>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.


19 posted on 01/23/2021 9:25:28 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: TigerClaws

To invalidate the “Alien and Sedition” act


20 posted on 01/23/2021 9:27:40 AM PST by SMARTY (“If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.” Winston Churchill)
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