St. Helena attorney and Napa Valley College Trustee Rafael Rios III and Yountville Mayor John Dunbar are the fifth and sixth people to announce they are running for Diane Dillonâs seat on the Napa County Board of Supervisors.
Rios and Dunbar join a growing field of contenders also made up of St. Helena City Councilmember Anna Chouteau, Napa County Planning Commissioner Anne Cottrell, grapegrower Cio Perez, and Napa Valley College Trustee Ines DeLuna.
Dillon announced in January that she would not run for a sixth term after representing the vast District 3 since 2002.
Rafael Rios
Rios came to the Napa Valley from Mexico in 1968 after his family was granted permanent residency based on a petition from his father, who was working in California under the Bracero Program. He graduated from St. Helena High School and earned a bachelorâs degree in landscape architecture at UC Davis, a law degree from Santa Clara University, and an MBA in wine business from Sonoma State Univers
New terminology
The bill would replace the term “alien” in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) with the term “noncitizen.”
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According to UC Davis professor Kevin Johnson, the use of the term “alien” helps to reinforce and strengthen nativist sentiment toward new immigrant groups, which in turn influences responses to immigration and human rights issues.
He may be right, but should Congress be changing the terms in the INA to ensure that our immigration laws are properly influencing the way people think?
George Orwell in his book, 1984, called it “newspeak,” a new language characterized by the elimination or alteration of certain words for political purposes.
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