Biden Admin Orders ICE, CBP To Halt Usage Of Immigration Terms Embraced In Trump Era | Talking Points Memo

The Biden administration has directed immigration enforcement agencies to stop using references to immigrants that were commonplace under the Trump administration, according to the Washington Post on Monday.


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Somehow, I’m not sure the “old” terms were what ICE & CPB were actually using. I’m picturing terms far more appalling and racist in nature were in very common usage.

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Oh this is going to go over well. A move toward human dignity. What a concept.

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“Furthermore,” he added, “Republicans who voted against certifying the election results will now be referred to as ‘empirically challenged.’”

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Traitors is shorter, easier and more to the point.

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You can bet a bunch of Border Patrol and ICE officers are furious today, simply because their “freedom of speech” is being trampled so they can’t use derogatory terms towards non-citizens, all of whom they see as enemies (well, maybe not the white ones, after all they are Anglo-Saxon…). This won’t change things among those officers, our best option is to get rid of them and replace them with people who actually believe in the American principle of E Pluribus Unum. The more we get rid of the white supremacists in our national government, the better it will work for all Americans.

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So it sounds as if the trump administration officially encouraged the use of the former wordings. Think about that for a moment.

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“a nation of immigrants” — a change in tone compared to the Trump administration that removed the phrase from the mission statement of CIS.

If CIS refers to the Center for Immigration Studies, which worked closely with the Trump WH, I wonder if the Orange Blob actually removed the phrase from CIS, as they claim to be an independent, non-partisan, non-profit research org.

(Others might say CIS is a hate-filled, anti-immigrant, white supremacist org, but it is a tough call :wink: )

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Both these bodies were set up by Republicans to do Republican bidding. They start up some new department every time they get in. ICE shouldn’t even exist.

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I also like ‘sons of alcoholic failures’.

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O that is good really really good. hahahahaha

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Most men who have held a job and made it to the age of 50 find themselves to be great philosophers. Having sought no truth, having learned nothing, having acted, to my mind, like cowards, hiding in crowds, risking nothing, and inevitably following the biggest a-hole they can find.

I am 50 years old. They are surprised when I leap down their throat over some straight-from-the-radio nonsense.

I’ve lived in remote Scotland since January 25th 2017. There is a lot of ‘all lives matter’ going on around here. In order to mitigate being beaten to death in a back alley, or crippling a local, I went into the bar, bade them all shut up, and announced myself to be an undercover operative for the Harlem Intelligence Agency, that my skin color was an extensive tattoo, and that I’d had my appendage shortened so I wouldn’t scare them. All with a straight face.

I’m a big guy. They don’t talk about all lives mattering down here anymore. They get the feeling I might hold them to their words.

They’re right.

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I’m beginning to think that the Democrats now posses a complete monopoly on human decency in politics.

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Just beginning? Democrats occupy the entire moral high ground. There isn’t a half an inch for a Repug - they are all morally repugnant just on account of being Repugs.

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The Clueless Borg Patrol will now refer to them as “future Democratic voter” or “citizenship underserved”.

This is a move towards being less cruel, but actions are better than words.

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As the nation’s premier law enforcement agency

Seriously? The *premier& law enforcement agency? I wouldn’t have even put them in the top three.

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It would be a darn shame if they got so upset over this that they quit working for CBP and ICE.

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Wait until they get renamed the Dept of Immigrations and Customs Knowledge.

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Watch it with that Commie talk.

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One we get policing utterly reformed after the Derek Chauvin trial verdict, we can tackle utterly reforming ICE and CBP. Nothing but blue skies ahead.

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