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EOIR Rescinds Policy Memo on Updated Terminology Regarding Noncitizens

1/29/25 AILA Doc. No. 25013163.
EOIR Acting Director Sirce Owen issued Policy Memorandum (PM) 25-07, which rescinds and cancels the 7/23/21 PM 21-27 that had updated the agency’s use of terminology regarding noncitizens and had directed the agency not to use terms like “alien,” “unaccompanied alien,” or “illegal alien.”

EOIR Acting Director Sirce Owen issued Policy Memorandum (PM) 25-07, which rescinds and cancels the 7/23/21 PM 21-27 that had updated the agency’s use of terminology regarding noncitizens and had directed the agency not to use terms like “alien,” “unaccompanied alien,” or “illegal alien.”

Cite as AILA Doc. No. 25013163.