Science fiction stories about “alien” invaders are often political allegories for anxieties around immigration. Now, a government website depicts non-citizens as extraterrestrials.
Those readers who lived during the 1980s may remember these lyrics from the chorus of the Sting song "Englishman in New York": Oh, I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien I'm an Englishman in New York In the ...
State and local offices across Washington are being directed to remove the word “alien” from state statutes and replace it with “noncitizen” under a new law aimed at modernizing legal language. The ...