You're gonna laugh. The other night on the news break on the radio, they described this bill as "making it a crime to be in this country illegally". I told Mrs. Thinking and she was speechless.
That’s what happens when you define words out of existence ... you have to invent a silly new locution to convey the original meaning.
I like “undocumented alien,” myself - as if they ran their US birth certificates and Social Security cards through the wash by accident.