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Cecilia Nowell

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

people walk through parking lot with two white signs around them
Fire victims walk to and from the Fema services and assistance tent at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California, on 17 January. Photograph: Jim Ruymen/UPI/REX/Shutterstock

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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