Regarding immigration terminology, it is true that the term ';alien'; is applied to legal and illegal people

who are not citizens of the USA?Regarding immigration terminology, it is true that the term ';alien'; is applied to legal and illegal people
Yes it is. Foreigners usually.Regarding immigration terminology, it is true that the term ';alien'; is applied to legal and illegal people
Alien means anything foreign.
Yes, yes.... I believe it is true!
No. Only to illegal aliens. Immigrants are immigrants of some sort.
alien refers to non-citizens.





BTW, ';immigrant'; refers to those that are LEGALLY working toward citizenship vs. the ILLEGAL ALIENS or someone that is ';undocumented'; that shouldn't be here. In spit of that Harry Reid says, there is no such thing and an ';undocumented citizen.';
Yes it's true. There's nationalized aliens legal aliens and illegal aliens. I wish some ppl would learn the difference between a legal alien and a citizen myself. SOME ppl think a visa means citizenship for some crazy reason. Which is why so many ppl were against SOME ppl getting a visa with the act proposed last year. They thought the ppl who got the visas would be allowed to vote and have full rights as a citizen. Now that was uneducated.
Yes---a weird terminology indeed--when thinking about aliens, usually ';...from out of space'; is the first thing that comes to mind....
I am not opposed to nor offended by the word alien. So feel free to apply it to both types.





However, I am extremely opposed to and offended by ILLEGAL alien CRIMINALS.
Immigrant or illegal alien.


Illegal Immigrant is not correct. And undocumented worker isn't either. Just another way of saying ';illegal alien.';
Both legal or illegal immigrants are considered ALIEN. If they become U.S. citizens the term Alien is no longer applied to them.
It's true. An alien in this context is a non-citizen of the USA.
';a resident born in or belonging to another country who has not acquired citizenship by naturalization';





So you can have a legal alien who has not acquired citizenship


You can also have an illegal alien who will never acquire citizenship.