Article 6V40X Fema workers responding to LA fires reportedly told to say ‘alien’ instead of ‘immigrant’

Fema workers responding to LA fires reportedly told to say ‘alien’ instead of ‘immigrant’

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Email shows Trump administration told officials to change vocabulary around gender and immigration immediately

Disaster officials responding to the historic blazes that leveled large swaths of southern California last month received notification from the Trump administration that they must immediately change their vocabulary around gender and immigration, according to an email obtained by 404 Media.

The email instructs employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) to cease calling undocumented immigrants migrants" and instead call them aliens". It also directs employees to replace gender" with sex".

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