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Ed Morales ( @SpanglishKid ) is a journalist and lecturer at Columbia University's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. He's the author of the book " Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico ." The views expressed are his own. View more opinion articles on CNN. (CNN) Last month, an email obtained by Axios revealed that Joe Biden's administration is encouraging the elimination of the use of the term "alien" or "illegal alien" in favor of "undocumented individual" or "undocumented noncitizen" in all official documents, outreach efforts and other communications , to describe those in the US who are not citizens. It's a significant development that is welcomed by advocates of the undocumented, since the long-standing use of "alien" is a not-so-subtle dog whistle that has been effectively used to dehumanize not only the undocumented, but actual American citizens. … [Read more...] about Biden is right about ‘aliens’

After opening up the 2021 college baseball season with eight consecutive games at Hi Corbett Field, the Arizona baseball team will embark on its first road trip of the season as they head to Texas for the Frisco College Baseball Classic. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic still in play, the players and coaches will have to follow strict guidelines on the road this season. The team will take two different buses everywhere they go, to the Tucson airport, hotel when they arrive in Texas as well as the Dr. Pepper Ballpark where the games will take place. The Wildcats are willing to do whatever it takes to be able to play baseball senior Quinn Flanagan said in a press conference on Tuesday, March 2. “We’re not to really leave the hotel,” Flanagan said. “We’re kind of confined in that space, which I think as a team we’re totally fine with. You know we’re there to play baseball and at the end of the day, that’s what we’re there to do. We’re going to do whatever it takes to stay on that … [Read more...] about Arizona baseball prepared for first road trip of the season

President Trump Donald Trump South Carolina Senate adds firing squad as alternative execution method Ex-Trump aide Pierson won't run for Dallas-area House seat House Oversight panel reissues subpoena for Trump's accounting firm MORE ’s address last weekend to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), in which he publicly identified his opponents, had all the charm and grace of another speech given in 1979, by Saddam Hussein , in Baghdad. If you have not seen that speech , let me set the scene. On July 22, 1979, Hussein, who had just been installed as Iraq’s president, addressed senior officials of the Ba’ath Party. “Address” is actually too delicate a description. It was a verbal (and afterwards, literal) firing squad. After announcing he had uncovered a conspiracy to overthrow him, he had a Ba’ath leader take the stage and identify 50 people by name in the audience who he claimed were co-conspirators. One by one, each man was escorted from the … [Read more...] about Republicans, please save your party