How we talk about immigrants shapes the policies. It frames what are the issues really at stake here. It acknowledges that we're talking about human beings and families.

>"It's just one small part of the sweeping immigration overhaul President Biden is proposing. But the symbolic significance is huge."

People are neither Alien nor Illegal. They are human beings; worthy of our concern, care, and love. Well yeah I don’t think calling a race of people aliens is appropriate Unless aliens exist. Listen let’s not call other humans that are different then our skin tone “aliens” that’s just dumb and slightly racist in away. I agree with this action by Biden.

“Biden's proposed bill, if passed, would remove the word "alien" from US immigration laws, replacing it with the term "noncitizen."

But Vargas (Jose Antonio Vargas, an undocumented immigrant whose organization, Define American, pushes for more accurate portrayals of immigrants) says the term and others used to demonize immigrants are no laughing matter. "Language has power. And I think we saw that in the Trump administration, how it used dehumanizing terms and how it debased language and in turn debased people," Vargas says. "If you call them 'alien,' of course you're going to put them in jail, of course you're going to lock them up, of course you're not going to care that you're separating little kids from their parents."