State and local offices across Washington are being directed to remove the word “alien” from state statutes and replace it with “noncitizen” under a new law aimed at modernizing legal language. The ...

(a) The term “alien” means any person who is not a citizen or national of the United States. (b) The term “organization” is defined in section 101(a)(28) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.