Definition of "illegal immigrant" []

• Someone who has immigrated into a country by bypassing customs and immigration controls. (noun)

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• "Washington stakes an extra half billion this year, hacked from the Irish illegal immigrant levy."
• ""The hard truth is, Salvo, that as you very well know, or should know, you have been an illegal immigrant ever since your ten-year-old feet touched down on Southampton dock-side, and in all that time you never once applied for asylum."
• "Bush’s first choice for secretary of labor, Linda Chavez, described the firestorm that followed revelation of her sheltering of an illegal immigrant as “a game being played by the media, a kind of gotcha-game, where it’s a never-ending dribble of one story after another.”"