The term “illegal alien” is official government terminology again, after the new acting head of the Department of Homeland Security scrapped “confusing” euphemisms like “undocumented noncitizen” and “integration”.
Words like “alien” were banned, and politically correct language was mandated by the Biden administration as it presided over an unprecedented surge of illegal border crossings.
But acting DHS secretary Benjamine C. Huffman has wasted no time overturning the Orwellian edict of his predecessor Alejandro Mayorkas and has reinstated precise terminology, as defined in immigration law.
“It is not the role of the Department or its components to substitute alternative politically charged terminology in our official documents for terminology used by Congress in statutes signed by the President of the United States,” he wrote in a directive to all DHS offices Thursday (today).
“The Department and all components shall adhere to statutory language, which is precise and defined by Congress. For example, the term “alien” is defined at section
101(a)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act as: ‘The term ‘alien’ means any person not a citizen or national of the United States.’”
Under the Biden administration, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services(USCIS), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) offices were instructed to replace terms like “alien” with “noncitizen” and “assimilation” with “integration.”
Huffman has rescinded “all memos, guidance, and any other directives that direct personnel to avoid using language included in immigration law” including “illegal alien”.