By Kevin Johnson, University of California, Davis
A profound change has been proposed by the Biden administration for U.S. immigration law. Following up on candidate Joe Biden’s promise of immigration reform legislation, the U.S. Citizenship Act would eliminate the term “alien” from the U.S. immigration laws.
The country’s bedrock immigration law, the Immigration and Nationality Act, would be amended to say that “[t]he term ‘noncitizen’ means any person not a citizen or national of the United States.”
Some might think that terminology is not a big deal. But as a scholar of immigration and civil rights law, I believe that the one-word change could deeply influence Americans’ views about the rights of noncitizens and, by so doing, the future trajectory of immigration law and policy.
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JAN JEFFCOAT (ANCHOR): As asylum-seekers continue to make their way to the border, President Joe Biden is now facing pressure from Americans and those migrants still waiting south of the border. Former head of Customs and Border Protection and a senior visiting fellow at the Federation for American Immigration Reform Mark Morgan joins us now this morning. Quite the title there, thanks for joining us. The Biden administration did announce plans, as we know, to reverse former President Trump’s remain-in-Mexico policy by beginning the process of allowing those asylum-seekers to enter the U.S. So as their cases move through the court system, tell me what concerns you about this policy reversal?