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Under direction from Joe Biden, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is no longer referring to immigrants as illegal aliens, aliens, or undocumented aliens in internal and external communications, but to instead use the terms noncitizen, undocumented noncitizen, or undocumented individual. and is seeking to no longer use assimilation, but instead to use integration, as well as to refer to those who apply for benefits like green cards, food stamps, Medicaid, etc. as customers. The President has said these name changes are a symbolic gesture to acknowledge the U.S. as a nation of immigrants.Liberals have taken these name changes to extremes in the past. In 2019, New York City Commission on Human Rights banned the term illegal alien or illegals when its used with intent to demean, humiliate or harass a person and an offender can face up to $250,000 in fines. Hardly a symbolic gesture!The DHS, as of March 9, 2021, dropped the Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds Final Rule so Illegal aliens can now receive benefits that include Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), most forms of Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps, and will not be required to demonstrate self-sufficiency in order to remain in the U.S.In yet another change in immigration policy, Agents will no longer seek to deport immigrants for less serious offenses such as drug based crimes, assault, DUI, money laundering, property crimes, fraud, tax crimes, solicitation, or charges without convictions, said acting ICE director Tae Johnson. Agents seeking to arrest fugitives outside of jails will also need prior approval from the agencys director in Washington justifying the decision.While it is true that immigrants helped build the U.S., these people which include my great-grandparents who came here legally in the 1800s, did not rely on handouts, and were required to obey the laws of this nation. Criminals, people with contagious diseases, polygamists, anarchists, beggars and importers of prostitutes were denied entry.Fast forward to 2021. In summing up the changes in immigration law & policy for our newly christened undocumented noncitizens, violating immigration laws is no longer illegal, they can freely commit drug related crimes, assault, DUI, money laundering, property crimes, fraud, tax crimes, and prostitution without fear of deportation, are customers when applying for benefits, and no longer have to demonstrate an ability to work and be self-supportive to remain in the U.S.As Ukrainian-American comedian Yakov Smirnoff exclaimed, What a Country!

David DallasVillage of Bradford

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