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DOJ Sends Email to Press Offices With Instructions on How to Refer to Aliens in Official Press Releases

On July 24, 2018, CNN reported [link]1 that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has instructed U.S. Attorney’s offices to not use the term “`undocumented’ immigrants.” CNN included the guidance with the article [PDF version]. Although the CNN report does not specify the scope of the guidance until the penultimate passage of the article, the original document in fact applies to terminology used in press releases issued by U.S. Attorney’s Offices. In this post, I will briefly examine the DOJ guidance posted by CNN. The DOJ email instructs U.S. Attorney’s offices to follow the definitions in section 101 of the Immigration

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