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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — 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 ...