President Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has restored the use of “illegal alien” after the legal term was banned by the former administration.
ICE is now reverting the agency’s terminology and will also drop the term “noncitizen” to describe a foreign national, a new memo indicates.
The memo was sent out by ICE Director Caleb Vitello.
The new rules will apply to all “internal and external communications.”
In addition, ICE will also replace the term “noncitizenship” with “alienage.”
The move marks a stark departure from the Biden administration’s decision to use “more inclusive” terms when discussing foreigners who have entered the country illegally.
Even the word “assimilation” was dropped in favor of “civic integration” under Biden.
The Biden administration also received guidance from the Rand Corporation urging it to discontinue the use of not just the term “illegal alien.”
The organization even pushed for words like “Jihadist” to be banned.
The Rand Corporation warned that “Jihadist” is “racially charged.”
In addition, the Rand Corporation claimed that “looter,” “rioter,” and “trespasser” were all “racially charged as they are mostly applied to individuals of a particular race and not to white individuals.”
The Rand Corporation made the claims in a report to former President Joe Biden’s handlers.
The report to the Biden admin adds that “it is the disparate application of the term, rather than the definition, that has caused it to become disrespectful or damaging.”
The new ICE memo also underscores Trump’s focus on immigration in the first days of his administration.
Trump signed a slate of immigration-related executive orders on Day One of his second term.
Those orders include measures to declare a national emergency at the southern border, end birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens, suspend refugee resettlement, and designate cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger (R-TX) celebrated the flurry of executive orders addressing immigration.
In a statement, Pfluger noted that “Biden surrendered our border to chaos – but President Trump is wasting no time taking it back.”
“These executive orders are exactly what the American people demanded when they voted for law and order: military deployment to the border, designating cartels as terrorists, and ending the Democrats’ catch-and-release scam,” he added.
“The Republican Study Committee will work tirelessly alongside President Trump to seal our border, defend our communities, and make America safe again.
“This is what real leadership looks like: promises made, promises kept to the American people.”
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