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Alien, why? Is the legal system in US discriminatory in nature on purpose?

  While during colonization the term Alien did occur and it originated from in Latin usage to indicate foreign slaves, why does the Supreme Court of United States finding the term Alien appropriate to describe foreigners even today. It is a derogatory term used to indicate some one as inferior or even sub-human. It is certainly indicating the citizens of United States is somehow the only original form of species called humans. The British did use the term Alien to refer to foreigners, the Aliens Act of 1905, which was basically to discern “undesirable immigrants”. Subsequently under British Nationality Law, there was the British Nationality and Status of Alien act 1914, which later became British Nationality Act 1948. At present as per Cornell University online Library “Alien is a legal term that refers to any person who is not a citizen or a national of the US as listed in the immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Another country Dominica does uses the term with regard to land ...