Drew Angerer / Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden walks toward reporters on his way to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. (Drew Angerer / Getty Images)
By Jack Davis
Published February 16, 2021 at 6:27pm
The Biden administration is adopting what it calls “inclusive” language to describe illegal immigrants, eschewing the legal term “alien” to describe those who are not citizens.
President Joe Biden has said that his immigration bill, which is expected to be formally introduced in Congress this week, will seek to replace the words “illegal alien” in U.S. laws, according to Fox News.
The word “alien” has peppered laws concerning those who are not American citizens since the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts, but Biden wants to change all that and call illegal immigrants “noncitizens.”
Although siccing the word police on every U.S. law on the
