Library of Congress to Eliminate Terms ‘Illegal Alien’ and ‘Alien’
Posted on March 31, 2016
The Library of Congress is dropping the terms “illegal alien” and “alien” from its subject headings after a group of college students and the American Library Association protested the words’ usage.
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