NY City Council introduced a bill to ban the term - "illegal alien" and "illegal immigr Posted: Feb 21st, 2020 - 10:48 am In Reply to: It's about city counsels mandating things and how they - can get out of hand.
Not everyone is on board, though, with Councilman Joe Borelli calling it political correctness run amok.
“Here we are, it’s 2020 and we’re banning words,” said Borelli (R-SI).
The push, however, actually comes on the heels of a city measure passed last year making it against the law to call someone an “illegal alien” or threaten to call immigration authorities on them when motivated by hate, under penalty of fines as high as $250,000.
Bitta Mostofi, commissioner of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, at the hearing signaled support for banning the “offensive and dehumanizing term ‘alien.’”
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