Should we refer to these illegal aliens as immigrants?
414601
They are illegal immigrants.
270591
When looking at this issue here in this forum I was beginning to think that all America had gone crazy by only really considering 2 categories.  Citizen or Illegal.  There is a third category and that is Alien Residents who are in the country legally.  There is a large difference and I am glad that you to have noticed it as well.  All of us started out as immigrants at one point of history or another.  Even the Native Americans are said to have come from somewhere else, however as they settled the land centuries before any one else they are the only ones who we can say did not immigrate to this country, or Hemisphere for that matter.  As we are in the middle of trying to hammer out legislation for immigrants while we are doing this we should look at the laws that have been on the books since the 1920s and think about updating them.  I would favor them making it against the Federal Law to be an Illegal, however I would not support housing them in Federal Prison for any time and costing us even more than what we are spending now, deportation should be enough for first offense.  I do not feel that those who have assisted Illegals in a humanitariun sense should not be guilty of any crime, however those that profit from bringing them to the country or taking advantage of them when they are here should be punished.  There need to be many things done to update our system and make it have some teeth.  We also must as a nation realize it is not just a Hispanic problem we have illegals from every country in the world and we need to be aware of it and aknowledge it being that way.
208687
NO not on legal citizens under our constitutional rights! But i would except it for say illegal Aliens and immigrants!Prefer throwing them out by force if necessary!
937117
I'm with you.  Just what part of "illegal" don't they understand?  The definition for alien is not only from outer space.  I guess they feel they have the "right" to be called something else.  Heck, it's OUR Country!  Seems like they think they have "rights" for everything in this Country even if they aren't supposed to be here.\n\nI call it as I see it.\n\nPolitical correctness will be the death of this Country.
640928
YES. The illegals here need to go home and apply from THERE. The people who have been on the list already should be allowed here first. The end of the line should mean wait in your own country like the others are doing LEGALLY.
637613
Your point is?  \n\nThey are not Citizens of the United States. If we are discussing illegal immigrants who are Mexicans, they clearly didn't want to stay in Mexico, they wanted to come to the United States of America. If you are trying to use a word game as a claim to citizenship entitlement, you are just being silly.
587392
Yeah! They are people just like us...they are just called immigrants. Like the Mexicans, they're good people just like real u.s citizens. They're not over here causing trouble, they just want to make a better living for themselves. The Government is the one making them out to be "terrorists" undercover. But I got too in to that part, lol. But immigrants, are not bad people.
300160
The actions of a human being can be illegal. When we speak of illegal immigrants, the word illegal is describing how they immigrated, not people themselves. I don't care for the use of illegal as a noun, because that does imply something about the person, rather than his or her status. However, that's semantics. It does not mean that people who oppose illegal immigration are dehumanizing the immigrants. In fact, people on both sides of the issue use the term illegals. The reality is that there are many people in this country who have either entered or stayed in the country illegally, that is in defiance of our immigration laws. In deciding how to deal with these people, we cannot just ignore this fact.
1080908
Immigrants are, I hope, "LEGAL Immigrants".   ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS could be defined as :\n\nWEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION!!  (WMD)\n\nDestroy our economy(tax burden), our health (disease), health systems (hospital closings), schools (over populated), prisons(criminals), crime rate(increase due to gangs, drugs, other illegal activity), neighborhoods (overcrowded apts, and houses, destruction of property, trash), wages (lower our wages), culture(by trying to make Spanish our 2nd language), our heritage (trying to claim land we WON in war), and on and on and on!!
308518
hi , my name is nimrod....... they should be deported because they are illegal, what about our English language cant you understand about our laws?? its against the law to be here illegally.... whats so hard to understand about that w*t  b***K!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
855167
it's immigrants not "immagrants"\n\nBy the way, just remember that illegals may be illegals, but they are still HUMANS ok? So don't be so stupid asking this dumb question
1083894
Oh my when I or anyone I know start looking at people who look different than us and trying to decide if they are illegal or not.....well that is the day we should just shut ourselves up in the house with our cats and Dr. Phil.\n\nI am so glad that I and those I love are so completley oblivious to "that" part of this immigration crap.  We don't judge people and think they are OBVIOUSLY ILLEGAL because they play "carnival music"....we play boy bands a little too often ourselves, or park cars in the driveway (we have quite a few that my husband calls "fixer uppers"), or comment on how many live in a home.......we don't have alot...but would hate for someone to comment if all 6 of my husbands brothers and their families came to visit.\n\nIt is all general.....some just distort the details to fit the circumstance.\n\n\nPeace.
706128
Hi,\nI guess the correct term when referring to people from Spain would be to call them Spaniards.  But I think its also ok to use 'the Spanish' when referring to them collectively.\n:-)
502857
DEFINITELY YES!!!!!! THIS should have been done YEARS ago, before we had twenty MILLION or more of them here!!! Our country HAS BEEN INVDED BY ILLEGALS, and they should be TREATED AS SUCH!!!!!! INVADERS!! We are at WAR!! We have been and ARE being, INVADED by a third-world country, WITH the ENCOURAGMENT of THEIR worthless government!!!! I say do WHATEVER it takes to stop them!!!
846826
Wonderful question.  Unfortunately, you won't get any intelligent answers from the pro-illegals.  They don't have any, so they use the "we were all illegal" crap.
678483
HAHA...\n\nMy Idea Exactly...\n\nOr MAYBE WE SHOULD LAY DOWN A MINE FIELD TO STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION...
470675
well, foreingers are okay, illegal aliens aren't.  and seeing as how they themselves are illegal, everything they do is illegal from that point on.  Illegal shopping.  Illegal eating. Illegal sleeping.