Biden bars federal agencies from using phrase ‘illegal alien’
President Joe Biden’s administration has ordered U.S. immigration agencies to stop using the controversial and dehumanizing phrase “illegal alien” in reference to migrants.
The term was common during former President Donald Trump’s administration, turning up frequently in statements and news releases from both Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection.
The Washington Post reported that the shift — which also bans the phrase “assimilation” in favor of “integration” — was outlined in memos sent Monday to ICE and CBP.
The White House confirmed the change to the Daily News, but declined to provide further comment.
“As the nation’s premier law enforcement agency, we set a tone and example for our country and partners across the world,” Troy Miller, the acting CBP commissioner, said in a memo. “We enforce our nation’s laws while also maintaining the dignity of every individual with whom we interact. The words we use matter and will serve to further confer that dignity to those in our custody.”
First grader shot 6 times; police investigating if
father was target
CHICAGO – The 7-year-old girl killed Sunday afternoon while with her father in a Mcdonald’s drive-thru was a first grade student who attended a Chicago public school in Humboldt Park and Chicago detectives are investigating her fatal shooting as possibly targeting her father, according to police.
Jaslyn Adams, 7, was shot six times Sunday as she and her father waited in a drivethru line at the Mcdonald’s, 3200 W. Roosevelt Road in the Homan Square neighborhood on the West Side, a preliminary police report states.
A responding police officer took the gravely injured child in a squad car and rushed her to Stroger Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 4:39 p.m. Her father, 29, with whom she had been in an Infiniti sedan in the drive-thru lane at the time of the shooting, was shot once in the lower back, the report states. He also was taken to Stroger in serious condition.
Forty-five spent shell casings — 28 from a handgun of one caliber and 17 from a handgun of another caliber — were found at the scene, according to the police report.
Investigators believe two people in a silver Audi approached from Kedzie Avenue and pulled up next to the Infiniti sedan Jaslyn Adams and her father were traveling in. A person got out of the front passenger seat and a second person got out of the rear passenger seat and both began shooting at the Infiniti, according to the report.
At some point during the barrage of gunfire, the Infiniti rolled forward and “crashed into the Mcdonalds intercom system in the drive-thru after being struck by multiple” bullets, the report said.