By Marissa Ventrelli | Colorado Politics
Colorado Republicans are accusing Democratic leaders of censorship, saying the latter have provided them with a list of words they are prohibited from using during floor debates.
The list comes from a memo issued by the Biden Administration to the Executive Office for Immigration Review. According to the memo, the Library of Congress stopped using the term “illegal alien” in 2016 because it is was deemed pejorative, and several US Supreme Court cases have adopted the term “noncitizen” instead of “alien” because the latter term is associated with hate groups. The list provided to House Republicans includes terms such as “illegal,” “alien,” “invader(s),” “interloper,” “squatter,” and “fresh off the boat,” and recommends using terms like “migrant,” “immigrant,” and “new arrivals” instead.
House Democratic leaders could not be immediately reached for comment.