TSA will now refer to non-US citizens as 'aliens' under new rule

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: msn/Bloomberg

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(Bloomberg) -- The US Transportation Security Administration will now refer to non-US citizens as “aliens” in its regulations, according to a change announced Friday.

The decision was included in a final rule signed by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. The government said it was making the change to “align TSA’s regulatory language with statutory terms and definitions in the Immigration and Nationality Act,” a law enacted in 1952.

President Donald Trump’s administration has already been using the term “alien” in executive orders and on government websites. The TSA’s change further expands its usage, which some advocates and prior administrations have said dehumanizes non-US persons.

The policy reverses US government moves under former President Joe Biden to reduce the use of the word, such as removing in 2021 references to “aliens” from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services policy manual.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/tsa-will-now-refer-to-non-us-citizens-as-aliens-under-new-rule/ar-AA1WizwJ

[Grokenstein]

1. Just to be assholes. Just to dehumanize "the other."

Just to keep the fascism creeping along.

[IronLionZion]

2. the aliens

[TNNurse]

3. Way to encourage tourism and bringing in money.

[gopiscrap]

4. I remember being called an alien

when first entering the US. Even as a child I didn't appreciate it, It made me feel less than a person.

[groundloop]

5. So all the people coming to watch the World Cup are "aliens".....

That'll give them all a nice warm feeling.

[WestMichRad]

6. Surprised that they not just calling them

criminals.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

7. A dear friend's husband is now an "Alien"who has Permanent residency. (He's British)

Interesting now that if they pan a trip together to the UK or wherever outside the US, he may not be able to get back into the US? I will have to broach that subject to her.

[Karma13612]

8. That affects my husband as well.

Happy Valentine’s Day to my British Alien.

He’s been my Green Card holding Permanent Resident Husband ( living here in the states since 2003, married in Bristol England in 2000).

This country is so messed up right now.

[purr-rat beauty]

9. More petulant bullshit

Dehumanizing and likely will dissuade visitors

Oh....many in the TSA are just a generation or two from alien status