Border Agency Returns to Using Term ‘Illegal Alien’

A CBP memo states that Biden-era guidance on terminology has been revoked.

Illegal immigrants who passed through a gap in the U.S. border wall await processing by Border Patrol agents in Jacumba, Calif., on Dec. 7, 2023. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

A government directive issued on the first day of the Trump administration indicates that federal agencies have been instructed to use legal terms such as “illegal alien” instead of political euphemisms adopted by the Biden administration.

“Illegal alien is back in,” and terms such as “undocumented” and “non-citizen” are out, a Border Patrol source told The Epoch Times.