She’s not the only one. Across the country, politicians and immigration activists are taking aim at the rhetoric etched into official documents. By Mihir Zaveri Susan Lontine, a Democratic state ...

SACRAMENTO — California will strike the word “alien” from its state laws, getting rid of what Gov. Gavin Newsom called “an offensive term for a human being” that has “fueled a divisive and hurtful ...

The first time I heard someone called an “alien” in a legal context was over breakfast with a roommate in law school. After college, she’d spent a year playing basketball in France. Why leave such a ...

Vargas, who immigrated to the San Francisco Bay Area illegally in 1993, remembers the words “resident alien” being stamped on a fraudulent green card his grandfather bought him. Several years later, ...

The word “alien” is peppered throughout federal law, and it has nothing to do with extraterrestrial life illegally visiting the United States. The law uses the word to describe people who aren’t ...

Why should a useful and descriptive word be banished? My Webster’s dictionary defines “illegal” as “not according to or authorized by law” and also “not sanctioned by official rules”. Black’s Law ...

President Joe Biden wants to remove the word "alien" from US immigration law. Biden wants to replace it with "noncitizen." It's a symbolic gesture, his administration said, to frame America "as a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Then-candidate Joe Biden speaks with a town hall attendee, who objects to Obama-Biden immigration policies, at Lander University ...

California will strike the word "alien" from its state laws, getting rid of what Gov. Gavin Newsom called "an offensive term for a human being" that has "fueled a divisive and hurtful ...

California will strike the word “alien” from its state laws, getting rid of what Gov. Gavin Newsom called “an offensive term for a human being” that has “fueled a divisive and hurtful narrative.” ...