Several years later, he read the words “illegal aliens” in a front-page newspaper article and heard it on the radio while heading to school. “Terms like ‘alien’ and ‘illegal,’ which I grew up hearing ...

Susan Lontine, a Democratic state representative in Colorado, knows well how some use the term “illegal alien” to disparage migrants. Her district in Denver contains many immigrant communities, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...