![]() ![]() ![]() The federal government has used the term “alien” to describe people in the US who are not citizens since at least 1798 with the passage of the “Aliens and Sedition Acts.”īut Assemblywoman Luz Rivas, a Democrat from the Los Angeles neighbourhood of Arleta, said the word “has become weaponised and has been used in place of explicitly racial slurs to dehumanise immigrants.” “By changing this term, we are ensuring California’s laws reflect our state’s values,” Mr Newsom said. The words we say and the language we adopt in our laws matter - this racist term ‘alien’ must be removed from California statute immediately Luz Rivas But the law signed on Friday finishes the job by removing the word from all state laws, with it to be replaced with terms like “non-citizen” or “immigrant”.
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