Fema workers responding to LA fires reportedly told to say 'alien' instead of 'immigrant'
Source: The Guardian
Thu 6 Feb 2025 19.14 EST
Last modified on Thu 6 Feb 2025 19.15 EST
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”.
The email came just days after Donald Trump signed an executive order titled Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government. That order instructs federal employees to remove “all radical gender ideology guidance, communication, policies, and forms”.
The email was sent to Fema employees in the recovery division of Region 9, which is responding to the Los Angeles wildfires. It includes specific language about how Fema officials should handle immigration: “While the following chart presents examples of terminology that should be replaced, it should not be considered to be comprehensive, particularly in the immigration space.” A chart which follows directs employees to replace words like “integration” with “assimilation”.
In southern California, where residents hail from across the world, one in three Angelenos identifies as an immigrant. A second email directed Fema officials to immediately cease using any forms that used prohibited language.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/fema-la-wildfires-trump-vocabulary
This is how fascism gets indoctrinated.
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