Kevin Johnson Publishes Op-Ed and Gets Featured in Sacramento Bee and The Hill

Kevin Johnson got his op-ed featured on the website "The Conversation" last week. His editorial focuses on the the change in rhetoric regarding immigrants under the Biden administration. He argues that exchanging the word "alien" for "noncitizen" could dramatically influence Americans' views on the rights of noncitizens. This one-word shift, Johnson claims, could lead to huge changes in laws regarding immigration and civil rights. 

A few days after his publication of the op-ed, Johnson was asked to share his opinions in a Sacramento Bee article which discussed the recent movement by California Democrats to ban the term "alien" in state laws.

To learn more about the potential impacts that this shift in rhetoric may have, read Johnson's full op-ed, found here.

To read the Sacramento Bee article and learn more of Kevin Johnson's views on this shift, read the Sacramento Bee article here. 

To read The Hill article which features quotes from Johnson's op-ed, read here.