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BumRushDaShow

(167,444 posts)
Fri Feb 13, 2026, 08:04 PM 7 hrs ago

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

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

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TSA will now refer to non-US citizens as 'aliens' under new rule (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 7 hrs ago OP
Just to be assholes. Just to dehumanize "the other." Grokenstein 7 hrs ago #1
the aliens IronLionZion 6 hrs ago #2
Way to encourage tourism and bringing in money. TNNurse 5 hrs ago #3
I remember being called an alien gopiscrap 5 hrs ago #4
So all the people coming to watch the World Cup are "aliens"..... groundloop 5 hrs ago #5

gopiscrap

(24,640 posts)
4. I remember being called an alien
Fri Feb 13, 2026, 10:14 PM
5 hrs ago

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

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