Federal agencies ignore legal status and deem all foreign nationals living in the United States “noncitizens.”
QUICK FACTS:
- According to Breitbart, a new report details the Biden Administration’s efforts to stop describing foreign nationals who live in the United States as “aliens.”
- This order conflates legal immigrants—green-card holders and visa workers—with illegal ones and characterizes them all as “noncitizens.”
ALIEN OR NONCITIZEN:
- In April, the Department of Homeland Security ordered officials to stop describing foreign nationals in the U.S. as “aliens” and to instead use the term “noncitizen.”
- At the same time, the Citizenship and Immigration Services started to remove the term “alien” from its manual to be “more inclusive.” As the Center for Immigration Studies’ Robert Law reports, “this is quite a labor-intensive task, as USCIS is still making updates 10 months later.”
- The term “alien” is the legal definition used for a foreign national in the United States, codified into law in the Immigration and Nationality Act.
BACKGROUND:
- The Biden Administration is under intense fire for its handling of the southern border, where illegal crossings currently spike to unprecedented levels.
- The issue resonates with voters across the spectrum, and critics argue that the President and his border czar, Vice President Kamala Harris, are not taking the situation seriously.
