illegal immigrant
Noun
Meaning
illegal immigrant (plural illegal immigrants)
(countable, sometimes offensive) Someone who has immigrated into a country by bypassing customs and immigration controls.
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An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.
Every unskilled illegal immigrant who enters the United States for work drives up healthcare costs for every American. And, every illegal immigrant we turn a blind eye toward weakens the rule of law our country is founded on.
We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.
This senseless and totally preventable act of violence committed by an illegal immigrant is yet another example of why we must secure our border immediately.