{"id":1979435,"date":"2023-07-21T12:19:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T16:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/homeland-security-secretary-mayorkas-boasts-about-ditching-the-term-illegal-alien\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T12:20:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T16:20:34","slug":"homeland-security-secretary-mayorkas-boasts-about-ditching-the-term-illegal-alien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/homeland-security-secretary-mayorkas-boasts-about-ditching-the-term-illegal-alien\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayorkas proud of abandoning &#8216;Illegal Alien&#8217; label."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhomeland-security-secretary-mayorkas-boasts-about-ditching-the-term-illegal-alien%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1979435&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Secretary of Homeland\u2063 Security Alejandro Mayorkas Rejects Use of &#8220;Illegal\u200d Alien&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>In a recent interview with CNN&#8217;s Fareed Zakaria, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas made a bold statement. He announced that he has directed \u2064his agency to avoid using the term &#8220;illegal\u200d alien&#8221;\u2063 when\u2064 referring to foreign nationals who enter the United States illegally.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;In the Department of Homeland Security, I \u200dissued a\u200d memo very early on that we \u200bwould not use the term &#8216;illegal alien.&#8217; When speaking of these individuals, we \u2062use the term &#8216;non-citizen,&#8217; and\u2063 that speaks to the importance of respecting the \u2064dignity of the individual,&#8221; Mayorkas remarked.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This decision by Mayorkas \u200ccomes at \u200da time when illegal immigration has seen a \u200dsignificant increase under the Biden administration. Since President Biden took office in 2021, an estimated 1.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-parliamentarian-kills-dems-bid-for-immigration-reform-through-reconciliation\/\" title=\"Senate Parliamentarian Kills Dems\u2019 Bid for Immigration Reform Through Reconciliation\">5 million illegal immigrants<\/a> have managed to enter the \u2064country, surpassing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/border-patrol-busts-illegal-immigrant-smugglers-in-fake-fedex-vans\/\" title=\"Border Patrol catches smugglers using counterfeit FedEx vans\">total reported gotaways<\/a> \u200bduring the\u2063 previous three years under the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Border Patrol has reported a staggering 1,000% increase \u2064in illegal immigration from various countries, including China, Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, and Ethiopia, among others, from fiscal year 2022 to fiscal year 2023.<\/p>\n<p>While the surge in illegal crossings poses\u2062 a \u2064threat to American \u2062citizens living on the border, the Biden administration has \u2062introduced the CBP One app, a digital platform that allows foreign nationals to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/homeland-security-secretary-mayorkas-boasts-about-ditching-the-term-illegal-alien\/\" title=\"Mayorkas proud of abandoning 'Illegal Alien' label.\">schedule \u2064asylum claim meetings remotely<\/a>. This has resulted in nearly 80,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tx-gov-abbott-pushes-back-against-new-york-washington-d-c-mayors-over-busing-scheme\/\" title=\"Tx Gov. Abbott Pushes Back Against New York, Washington D.c. Mayors Over Busing Scheme\">000 foreign nationals entering<\/a> the United States between January and April.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1690029339199000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1aBZKXZOsvkW3aRCKp8ThD\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+\u2062 APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Major cities, such as Chicago and New York City, have struggled to accommodate \u2064the influx of foreign\u200b nationals under the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, illegal immigration has proven to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-judge-bans-enforcement-of-biden-100-day-deportation-freeze-indefinitely\/\" title=\"Texas Judge Bans Enforcement Of Biden 100-Day Deportation Freeze \u2018Indefinitely\u2019\">significant financial burden<\/a> on United States taxpayers, costing approximately \u200b$151 billion annually. A recent report from Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee revealed that it also places a substantial \u2063strain on the\u200c American medical system.<\/p>\n<p>A CBS \u200cNews poll conducted in late May showed that 63% of Americans disapprove of President Biden&#8217;s \u200bhandling \u2063of the United States border, while only 37% approve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>announce that he has instructed the agency to refrain from using the term &#8220;illegal alien&#8221; when discussing individuals who enter the US unlawfully. Mayorkas made this statement during an interview with Fareed Zakaria of CNN, organized by the Aspen Institute, where they discussed the asylum system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":503,"featured_media":1979436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1979436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}