I don't think "illegals" tranlates literally into German. Maybe undokumentierte Ausländer works but I prefer kriminelle Ausländer.
LOL!!!!Did you make that up or is it really a word?
BTW how do you get umlauts?
Illegale Einwanderer= Illegal Immigrants. (illegal with captial i)
Die Illegalen could be used like we say the 'illegals', it's literally correct, but I'm not really sure if it's used colloquially.
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