Featuring the award-winning and best-selling book, "THE IMMIGRATION PARADOX: 15 TIPS FOR WINNING IMMIGRATION CASES", by Attorney Charles Jerome Ware, former United States Immigration Judge (iUniverse Publishers, 2009).
IMMIGRATION AMNESTY? One week after the announcement by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security of the OBAMA Administration's new policy of making undocumented immigrants with no criminal record a low-priority for deportation, two young men originally from Mexico successfully halted their deportation/removal proceedings in Georgia. Look for thousands more beneficiaries of this new "amnesty" policy to come.
"Illegal" versus "Undocumented Aliens".
In America, no human being is "illegal" [see book, "THE IMMIGRATION PARADOX: 15 Tips for Winning Immigration Cases", by Attorney Charles Jerome Ware, former U.S. Immigration Judge]. However, the word "illegal" continues to be used a lot in immigration discussions. Others prefer the word "undocumented".
The following appears to be the most-common differentiations between the use of the two terms:
The terms "illegal alien" appears to be used to describe a foreign national who has entered the United States without lawful permission or, even if having entered legally, has since lost that legal status because of a criminal act.
The term "undocumented alien" is considered more of a civil offense and not criminal in nature, and refers generally to a foreign national who has entered the U.S. legally but has overstayed his or her visa for legal entry.
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