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The Biden administration is ordering U.S. immigration enforcement agencies to change how they talk about immigrants. The terms "illegal alien" and "assimilation" are out — replaced by ...
Is 'illegal alien' a legal term in federal law? An exchange between a legislator and the leader of Texas’ state law enforcement agency made us wonder whether federal law uses "illegal alien" to...
Democrats and Republicans are pointing fingers over an increase in illegal immigration at the southern border, and notably an increase in children traveling alone.
DHS has released several spreadsheets of data on illegal immigration at the southern border. All of the figures in this story come from that data from the Office of Homeland Security Statistics,...
“Legalizing countless millions of illegal aliens — even discussing it — rings the bell for millions more to illegally enter the U.S. to await their green card,” said Lora Ries, a senior ...
The Title 42 public health order ended in May 2023, so CBP officers could no longer expel illegal migrants for COVID-19-related reasons. Encounter numbers gradually rebounded over the remainder of 2020, surged 66% between February and March 2021, and have since remained elevated.
The term means the same thing as undocumented immigrants, illegal immigrants and illegal aliens. For more details on how we produced our estimates, read the Methodology section of our November 2018 report on unauthorized immigrants.
