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		clawr 58 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the stree... Alien has been the legal term since the beginning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts

lawn 58 days ago [–]

Resurrecting obscure rasistic terminology from 200 years ago isn't much of an excuse.

jdkee 57 days ago | [–]

It is the currently used language of the U.S. government.

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