Federal agencies will no longer use the terms āalien,ā āillegal alien,ā or āassimilationā when talking about immigrants.
According to The Washington Post, memos sent to department heads at Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection on Monday detailed the change.
The term āalienā will be changed to ānoncitizen or migrant,ā āundocumentedā will become the new term for āillegal,ā and āassimilationā will become āintegration.ā
The change comes as the Biden administration seeks to undoImmigration policies and rhetoric put forth by former President Donald Trump.
A 2019 analysis from USA Today examined the rhetoric used by Trump surrounding Immigration during the 64 rallies he held since 2017.
Trump used the term āinvasionā at least 19 times, āanimalā 34 times, and ākillerā roughly nearly three dozen times when referring to immigrants.
The former president during his rallies used the words āpredator,ā āinvasion,ā āalien,ā ākiller,ā ācriminalā and āanimalā more than 500 times while discussing the topic of Immigration.
During a rally in Panama City Beach, Florida, Trump said, āThis is an invasion. I was badly criticized for using the word invasion. Itās an invasion.ā

President Joe Biden previously weighed in on Trumpās rhetoric.
āThe words of a president matter,ā he said in Iowa in 2019. āThey can unleash the deepest, darkest forces in this nation. That is what Donald Trump has chosen to do.ā
Trump told reporters he is confident his rhetoric unites Americans.
āI think my rhetoric ⦠brings people together. I think we have toned it down. Weāve been getting hit left and right from everybody,ā he said.
Biden for the first time on Saturday admitted the situation at the southern border is a ācrisis.ā
