In a precedential decision announced Tuesday, a U.S. Department of Justice immigration unit entered default judgment against a woman who failed to respond to accusations that she violated the Immigration and Nationality Act by presenting an employer with a fake lawful permanent resident card and a fake social security card.
A person granted asylum gains permission to remain on the territory of the asylum country and protection from being forced to return to the country they fled.
In a July 23 memo titled “
Terminology,” Acting Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) Jean King directed immigration judges to
instead use terms like “undocumented noncitizen” and “undocumented individual.”
King also directed judges to stop using the term “unaccompanied alien child” to describe unaccompanied alien children, directing them to use terms like “unaccompanied non-citizen child” and “unaccompanied non-U.S. citizen child.”
The memo references a pair of President Joe Biden’s executive orders and notes that neither uses the term “alien” or “illegal alien” to describe illegal aliens. It also points to two recent Supreme Court opinions in which the justices opted to substitute the term “noncitizen” for the statutory term “alien.”
27 Jul 2021
President Joe Biden’s administration has ordered federal immigration judges to stop using the terms “alien” and “illegal alien” to describe illegal aliens living in the United States.
On July 23, Acting Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) Jean King, appointed by the Biden administration in January, issued a memo titled “Terminology” that orders immigration judges and adjudicators to stop using the terms “alien” and “illegal alien.”
Instead, King writes that judges and adjudicators to use the terms “noncitizen,” “migrant,” “undocumented noncitizen,” or “undocumented individual.”
Likewise, judges and adjudicators are ordered to use the terms “unaccompanied noncitizen child” and “UC” when referring to Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs).