The immigrants are mainly in the United States under temporary protected status, which the executive branch can grant to people whose home countries are in crisis.
Just throwing this out there, people aren’t “illegal.” Actions are illegal. It’s not the immigrant that is illegal, it is the immigration. People are legally permitted to come to America for a wide variety of reasons. Entering the country without documentation is illegal. Staying past the expiration of a visa is illegal. Entering into a loveless marriage to skirt immigration laws is illegal. The person is not the crime.
When conservatives talk about immigration, they do their best to dehumanize the scapegoats in the stories they create. Calling them “illegals” is a conscious effort to make it easier to treat them as less than people.
Just throwing this out there, people aren’t “illegal.” Actions are illegal. It’s not the immigrant that is illegal, it is the immigration. People are legally permitted to come to America for a wide variety of reasons. Entering the country without documentation is illegal. Staying past the expiration of a visa is illegal. Entering into a loveless marriage to skirt immigration laws is illegal. The person is not the crime.
When conservatives talk about immigration, they do their best to dehumanize the scapegoats in the stories they create. Calling them “illegals” is a conscious effort to make it easier to treat them as less than people.