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non-alien

and you thought you were a citizen ...! The federal government used this extremely circuitous synonym for citizens during World War II because it sounded so much better to be interning non-aliens than to be interning U.S. citizens. The latter had constitutional rights, but who knew what rights "non-aliens" had?


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