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Expressing the necessity for the Members of the House of Representatives to use the term undocumented instead of the term illegal when referring to foreign nationals which are working in the United States without proper documentation.

H. Res. 155 · 113th Congress · Apr 12, 2013 · Lineage

RESOLUTION

That—
(1)
Members of the House of Representatives no longer use the term Illegal Immigrant because no human being is illegal;
(2)
human beings need to be central in immigration discussions in order to move toward a more civilized and humane tone in public discourse and policies on immigration; and
(3)
foreign nationals, undocumented immigrant, unauthorized immigrant, immigrant without papers and immigrant seeking status are examples of terms we can use that do not dehumanize people. We can all stop unintentionally fueling racial profiling and violence directed toward immigrants, when we drop the word illegal when discussing a human being.