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Migrants hold a demonstration demanding clearer United States migration policies, at San Ysidro crossing port in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on March 2, 2021. (Guillermo Arias/AFP via Getty Images) An unopposed bill to remove the term “alien” from all state statutes is moving quickly through the California Legislature. Lawmakers seek to abolish use of the terms “alien” or “ illegal alien ,” which they deem offensive to foreign nationals who have entered the United States illegally.
The California Assembly voted 71 to zero to strike the word “alien” from all state statutes on May 20. Six Republicans and one Democrat abstained from the vote. No members spoke in opposition to the bill, which now heads to the state Senate.
Assemblywoman Luz Rivas (D-Arleta), author of Assembly Bill 1096 ( AB 1096 ), said the proposed legislation “deletes the outdated and offensive term ‘alien,’ which is found throughout our state laws, and replaces it with appropriate legal terminology, such as ‘noncitizen.’”
“Although the term alien has historically referred to individuals that are noncitizens, the word has since been weaponized and used in place of an explicitly racial slur,” Rivas told the Assembly. “There is a direct link between words and actions, and history has proven that dehumanizing language often precedes vile actions.”
Rivas cited a recent rise in racial violence, claiming more than 6,600 hate crimes have been committed against the Asian-American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community this year alone.
Katherine Daigle, a conservative columnist for PolitiChicks who has run unsuccessfully for mayor of Irvine, criticized California Republicans for taking a “weak” stance on the issue. She told The Epoch Times via email that “the increasing normalization of illegal immigration is morally unconscionable, period.”
Daigle suggested that lawmakers should stand firm on immigration laws, rather than “systematically undermining” them.
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“Let’s inject some ‘truthism’ into the words ‘illegal alien,’” she said. “Simply put, an illegal alien … is a person who has entered the United States illegally and is deportable if apprehended. That’s it.”
Changing the language in the statutes is “a great disservice to all patriotic immigrants” who have patiently waited in line and have followed the laws […]
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