LZ: An illegal alien is not a migrant or an immigrant, period. An illegal alien is not a person in the US illegally

New Leftist argument: Illegal Aliens are actually here legally.

Frida Ghitis: An illegal alien is not a migrant or an immigrant, period. An immigrant is a person who files the requisite applications, receives the requisite approvals and then waits his turn to be admitted.

Ghitis says leftist activists have transformed the term illegal alien to “person here legally”.

Svoronos wrote his appeal directly to President Reagan and was given an appointment with INS after only three weeks .

He was put to the test, and on June 6, 1987 , he became a US citizen.

He chose to spend 40 years at Q-CC serving (legal) immigrant students starting at rock bottom poverty.