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Showing Original Post only (View all)Biden wants to remove this controversial word from US laws [View all]
(CNN)It's just one small part of the sweeping immigration overhaul President Biden is pushing.
But the symbolic significance is huge.
Biden's proposed bill, if passed, would remove the word "alien" from US immigration laws, replacing it with the term "noncitizen."
It's a deliberate step intended to recognize America as "a nation of immigrants," according to a summary of the bill released by the new administration.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/21/politics/alien-biden-immigration-law/index.html
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I'm guessing that he means amending numerous lines of the U.S. Code and I figure that.....
EarnestPutz
Jan 2021
#22
I knew that DU would bring this into focus. Now I remember that "Congress makes the laws and.....
EarnestPutz
Jan 2021
#48
This is a matter of legal precision. Alien has many meanings. Noncitizen is clear and concise.
Midnight Writer
Jan 2021
#13
It also ties them to the "Alien and Sedition Acts" which were legal frameworks for....
EarnestPutz
Jan 2021
#45
Good!! Using alien is bad enough...but the rethugs always use the adjective illegal with it.
iluvtennis
Jan 2021
#33
I remember when I was very young my mother (Canadian) had to register every year...
George II
Jan 2021
#43
Yes indeed, we have it. This was before computers and word processing - hand typed:
George II
Jan 2021
#67
This is one of those cases where it makes sense politically and is easier to understand.
Renew Deal
Jan 2021
#71