illegal immigrant

== English == === Noun === illegal immigrant (plural illegal immigrants) (sometimes offensive) Someone who has immigrated into a country by bypassing customs and immigration controls. ==== Usage notes ==== The use of "illegal" to describe a person, rather than an action a person has undertaken, is regarded by some as offensive. ==== Synonyms ==== illegal crimmigrant undocumented immigrant ==== Hypernyms ==== immigrant, illegal alien, undocumented alien ==== Coordinate terms ==== asylum seeker ==== Translations ==== === See also === deportable(s) illegal immigration === References === Sterne, Peter (3 April 2013), “No more 'illegal immigrants' in AP stories”, in Columbia Journalism Review‎[4], retrieved 3 April 2013