Dehumanizing, inaccurate and outdated: why did Biden say ‘illegals’ in his State of the Union address?

Biden's use of the word to describe people who are undocumented is one his own administration ordered agencies to stop using

Joe Biden's seemingly off-the-cuff use of illegal" to describe people who are undocumented during his State of the Union address drew disappointed reaction from experts who have long argued the term is inaccurate and outdated.

Responding to heckling from conservative congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who demanded Biden mention the name of Laken Riley - a Georgia nursing student who was allegedly killed by a person who is undocumented - Biden held up a button of Riley's face and said she was an innocent, young woman who was killed by an illegal".