I know this is going to. be contentious, but US mainstream discourse seems to have completely eliminated the distinction between illegal and legal immigration, in the last 10 years. Everyone seems to be a "migrant".

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postflopclarity an hour ago | parent [-]

US policy has also nearly completely eliminated the distinction, by making legal immigration close to impossible and ~arresting~ kidnapping people at courthouses who are there for their immigration hearings, then shipping them off to foreign torture camps.

	▲	didgetmaster an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It is so nearly impossible, that somewhere between a half million and a million people have done it every year for the past few decades (including last year).