Trump advisers in talks to replace Biden term ‘undocumented immigrant’ with ‘illegal alien’

Published November 20, 2024 11:50am ET



EXCLUSIVE — One of the first actions that President-elect Donald Trump could take come Jan. 20, 2025, is rescinding the Biden administration’s ban on the term “illegal alien.”

Advisers to Trump’s transition team on homeland security matters told the Washington Examiner this week that there have already been discussions on doing away with the Biden administration’s politically correct immigration language to talk about illegal immigrants at the border and within the country.

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