The first time I heard someone called an “alien” in a legal context was over breakfast with a roommate in law school. After college, she’d spent a year playing basketball in France. Why leave such a ...

The word “alien” is peppered throughout federal law, and it has nothing to do with extraterrestrial life illegally visiting the United States. The law uses the word to describe people who aren’t ...

On April 2, 2013, the Associated Press announced amendments to its style book effectively banning the use of the word “illegal” to describe a person, as in “an illegal immigrant.” This announcement ...

California will strike the word "alien" from its state laws, getting rid of what Gov. Gavin Newsom called "an offensive term for a human being" that has "fueled a divisive and hurtful ...

She’s not the only one. Across the country, politicians and immigration activists are taking aim at the rhetoric etched into official documents. By Mihir Zaveri Susan Lontine, a Democratic state ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --An Illinois state senator has proposed eliminating the word alien from state laws when referring to people from other countries. Sen. Martin Sandoval (D-Chicago) got the idea from a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Then-candidate Joe Biden speaks with a town hall attendee, who objects to Obama-Biden immigration policies, at Lander University ...

Susan Lontine, a Democratic state representative in Colorado, knows well how some use the term “illegal alien” to disparage migrants. Her district in Denver contains many immigrant communities, and ...