The Dehumanizing History Of The Words We’ve Used To Describe Immigrants
The word “alien” will no longer appear in California’s labor code because it could be seen as disparaging to people not born in the United States, thanks to a new law that Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed this week. The move comes at a time when undocumented immigrants are dealing with a string of negative press stemming from Donald Trump’s incendiary comments about Mexican immigrants and the sensationalized killing of Americans at the hands of undocumented criminals.
▻http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2015/08/13/3690746/california-alien-immigrant-law
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