If you are a legal immigrant, that's very different from being an illegal immigrant. Media has spent enormous effort to try to blurry the difference, but it is

If you are a legal immigrant, that's very different from being an illegal immigrant. Media has spent enormous effort to try to blurry the difference, but it is there and it is huge. Legal immigration is in the interest of the country and legal immigrants have to meet certain conditions and pass background checks. Illegal immigrants do not do any of that.