From Assemblymember Luz Rivas Desk – States Dropping ‘Dehumanizing’ Terms for Immigrants
“Luz Rivas remembers seeing the word on her mother’s residency card as a child: “alien.” In the stark terms of the government, it signaled her mother was not yet a citizen of the U.S. But to her young daughter, the word had a more personal meaning. Even though they were going through the naturalization process, […]