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 ...

The term “illegal alien” is official government terminology again, after the new acting head of the Department of Homeland Security scrapped “confusing” euphemisms like “undocumented noncitizen” and ...

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 ...

Aída Salazar, a children’s book author in Oakland, had a typical 1970s Los Angeles upbringing. Her parents moved their family from a small city in Zacatecas, Mexico, to the Estrada Courts in Boyle ...