Border Patrol chief spurned Biden ban on phrase 'illegal alien': 'I cannot endorse'

The head of the U.S. Border Patrol privately rebuked a senior homeland security official over the Biden administration’s order that federal law enforcement stop using the term “illegal alien,” according to an internal document leaked to the Washington Examiner.

Ahead of an April 19 announcement from Troy Miller, the temporary leader of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Border Patrol’s national chief, Rodney Scott, sent an internal memo to his superior, criticizing the decision to replace immigration terms with ones seen as less offensive.