I think all people have rights, illegal immigrant or not. I also happen to think if you are here illegally you should be deported and required to immigrate lega

I think all people have rights, illegal immigrant or not. I also happen to think if you are here illegally you should be deported and required to immigrate legally. No ill will involved. I don't think of immigrants as sub-standard and anything even remotely like that (as an unfortunately large group of people think). Most of the population of the US is immigrants, strictly speaking. As for terminology, IANAL. From my viewpoint if you illegally immigrate, through action or inaction, then you are an illegal immigrant. I've never much liked the term alien as it has also been used to describe little green men and such. I think taking issue with calling a person illegal is splitting hairs, but I'll go along. The person isn't illegal, but their residency status is illegal. And my last point, to reiterate on what I said earlier, I have no ill will towards illegal immigrants and know they have basic rights. I would expect they get treated fairly under our laws (well, as fair as out laws can be). That being said, they are not here legally and I would expect that changes the legal avenues available to them.