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Offline rangerrebew

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Leaked ICE Memo Reveals Leadership Has Directed Employees to Refer to Foreign Nationals as 'Aliens'
« on: January 26, 2025, 10:18:34 am »

Leaked ICE Memo Reveals Leadership Has Directed Employees to Refer to Foreign Nationals as 'Aliens' Again
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) leadership has instructed employees to resume using the term "alien" in all internal and external communications, according to a leaked memo obtained by Axios on Tuesday.

The memo, issued by acting ICE Director Caleb Vitello, directs ICE employees to revert to statutory language, specifying the replacement of terms like "noncitizen" with "alien" and "noncitizenship" with "alienage." It also reverses the Biden administration's 2021 decision to adopt more inclusive language, replacing words like "alien" with "noncitizen", "undocumented noncitizen" or "undocumented individual" rather than "illegal alien" and "integration or civic integration" instead of "assimilation."
 
This change was part of Biden's effort to move away from the language and tone of the Trump administration, which referred to unauthorized immigrants as "illegal aliens" and described border crossings as an "invasion." At the time, a report by the Rand Corporation supported the Biden administration's move, recommending the discontinuation of racially charged terms.

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Re: Leaked ICE Memo Reveals Leadership Has Directed Employees to Refer to Foreign Nationals as 'Alie
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2025, 07:33:24 pm »
Okay. Someone 'splain to me how "alien" is racist?

You can be an illegal alien regardless of race, creed, color, sexual preference, eating habits, even your relationship with the family pet.  :shrug:

It is a legal status anyone not an American Citizen can obtain by entering illegally or overstaying a visa. It has nothing to do with race.
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Re: Leaked ICE Memo Reveals Leadership Has Directed Employees to Refer to Foreign Nationals as 'Alie
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2025, 10:21:06 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on January 26, 2025, 07:33:24 pm
Okay. Someone 'splain to me how "alien" is racist?

For the same reason objecting to Islam is racist, when Muslims come in all races:  because "racist" means whatever it serves the interests of The Party (the Democrat Party on this side of the Pond, the Labour Party, National Rally, SDU,... on the other), and accusing those who oppose your policies of being "racists" has proved very effective, since the English meaning of racist is now generally condemned.

Orwell correctly predicted the corruption of language in 1984, but got the method wrong.  Real world Newspeak doesn't narrow the meaning of words so that only approved thought can be expressed, it makes the meaning of words diffuse so that unapproved thought can be more easily vilified.
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