Changing the way immigration is discussed
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FILE - In this March 30, 2021, file photo, young minors lie inside a pod at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in Donna, Texas. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool, File)
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MEXIA, TX â Creating policies to ensure inclusive language is used in place of outdated terminology, the Biden Administration is moving away from terms like illegal and alien when discussing immigration. Since our nation s history, and founding one way we were able to commit heinous crimes against certain people groups was by labeling them words that would dehumanize them, detailed Hope Balfa Mustakim with the Waco Immigrants Alliance.
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