There has been a welcome change to the press releases issued by the El Centro Sector Border Patrol over the past few weeks. No longer does the agency refer to the objects of its enforcement activities as âillegal immigrants.â
With the arrival of Democrat Joe Biden to the White House, the official narrative around people who come from other countries without proper documents to enter the United States has changed in a very simple but very important way.
In recent weeks, the Border Patrol has been referring to people who enter irregularly as âundocumented non-citizens.â
Apparently, the new federal administration has decided, after four years of Republican attacks on immigrants, to change the rhetoric and adapt it to the guidelines dictated worldwide when referring to undocumented immigrants.