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Another Word for ‘Illegal Alien’ at the Library of Congress: Contentious / Jasmine Aguilera

Metadata and Nomenclature
 
Published  May 18, 2018  

Melissa Padilla joined with Dartmouth students at the Coalition for Immigration Reform, Equality and Dreamers, and they have spent more than two years petitioning the Library of Congress to remove “illegal alien” from its subject headings.

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Aguilera, Jasmine. 2017. “Another Word for ‘Illegal Alien’ at the Library of Congress: Contentious.” New York Times, June 22, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/us/another-word-for-illegal-alien-at-the-library-of-congress-contentious.html.
Published  May 18, 2018  

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