I call that de-facto legal status.
I don't want anything bad to happen to anyone, but it would be the fabulous irony if someone were to rob your home and then get away with it and never get caught.
I mean by your logic, if they get away with it, it means they deserve it. If it costs you thousands of dollars to replace -- oh well.
If there are 12 million of them here, and none of them are being deported, what do you call it.