BuzzFeed News quotes Dean Johnson in story on Biden team rejecting term 'alien'

News Posted on February 22, 2021

BuzzFeed News quoted Dean Kevin R. Johnson in a story about plans by the Biden administration to end the use of the terms “alien” and “illegal alien” in communications from the Department of Homeland Security about people who are not U.S. citizens. Read the article.

Kevin R. Johnson is the law school’s dean, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and professor of Chicana/o studies at UC Davis. He is an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of immigration law and policy, refugee law, and civil rights.