Just don't call it "immigration" (revisited)
I'm tired of everyone using the term "illegal immigrant".
There is no such thing. One cannot be an immigrant without being legal.
Because to be an immigrant requires going through whatever legal procedures the country one is attempting to change their citizenship to demands in order for said country to consider whether or not said one is "fit for" inclusion into its society.
And to have that country approve said request and act accordingly.
A better term for those here illegally would be "unlawfully present foreign outsider"---someone who's either overstayed their VISA and continues to hang around, or who's managed to enter another country covertly.
I'm tired of everyone using the term "illegal immigrant".
There is no such thing. One cannot be an immigrant without being legal.
Because to be an immigrant requires going through whatever legal procedures the country one is attempting to change their citizenship to demands in order for said country to consider whether or not said one is "fit for" inclusion into its society.
And to have that country approve said request and act accordingly.
A better term for those here illegally would be "unlawfully present foreign outsider"---someone who's either overstayed their VISA and continues to hang around, or who's managed to enter another country covertly.
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