Always read "illegal aliens" when reading on this subject. Immigrants are legal. Aliens are not. "Illegal Immigrants" is an oxymoron.
I'm not picking on you. I'm picking on the expression "illegal immigration". I'd love to wipe it from our heads and replace it with the real issue of "illegal aliens". Thanks for letting me use your comment as a correcting tool.
I don’t think you are entirely wrong but you are not entirely correct either. I had a Canadian pastor friend who came here on a vise and then obtained a green card. He was here legally and classfied as a “resident alien.”