What is the difference between legal and illegal immigration?

Senator D

I don't know if I even want to answer this easy question.

Sway 26

Legal means that the person went thorugh the proper channles and got the proper documentation and were approved for immigration. Illegal means that a person did not apply and just decided they were entitled to come here and do not have the proper documenation to be here.

The differnce is that legal immigration is a long and hard process. There are many people from very poor nations here now working to become an American. Illegal immigration spits in the face of those hard workers, they are law breakers and they are doing harm to this country.

Hoping a fence or filling out paperwork I think you can figure which is which

iMedic

Legal Immigration: You applied for citizenship and got it. You married a citizen of that country then moved there. Your parent is a citizen and that gives you citizenship.

Illegal Immigration: You snuck over here and still live hear without a visa. Your visa expired and you still live here.

Jerry H

I think legal immigration is coming across the border with the consent of the government, or with the request of a citizen of the country.

illegal immigration is coming across the border without any consent.

sassy

legal - going with the law
illegal - going against the law - CRIMINAL

UBER + MENSCH

illegal = criminal

Yukaza

Illegal aliens come across the borders without legal permission or legal documents .They are breaking a federal law by doing this.if caught they can be deported and/or sent to jail.
The legal immigrant goes thru all legal channels to become a citizen and doesn't break any laws.

Kevin

Simple, if you have come through the proper channels to get over here then you're a legal citizen. If you are breaking the law by being over here then you're a illegal citizen. Thus the words "legal" and "illegal".

xenypoo

There is no such thing as illegal immigration, or illegal immigrant's. They are not immigrant's, they are law BREAKER'S, trespasser's and criminal's of the country they enter without permission by the government.
Legal immigration, is when a person or person's enter a country with full permission, and knowledge of said country (government), that the alien who enter's, has followed all proper proceder's and rules layed out by said new country. These are USA rules, but it is the same for all countries.

WriteAndWrong

One is here by legal means and prodedures, and the other is here undercover sneaking in, and hidning under false numbers and using people as accessories to their crimes for a place to stay!!!

alberto g

The same different as pro criminal and anti criminal, that's the different. Good luck..

strike_eagle29

LEGAL IMMIGRATION DONE BY THE LAWS OF THE LAND. ALL THE IMMIGRANTS THAT COME HERE LEGALLY AND ADHERE TO THE LAWS OF OUR LAND BY GOING THROUGH THE PROCESS OF IMMIGRATION ARE MORE THAN WELCOME.

THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT HAS NO RESPECT FOR THE LAWS OF OUR LAND THEY SNEAK INTO THE COUNTRY BY WALKING ACROSS THE BORDER. NO ONE KNOWS WHO THESE PEOPLE ARE AND CHANCE ARE THEY THEY WILL NOT BE ALLOWED IN LEGALLY SO THEY HAVE TO RESORT TO BREAKING OUR LAWS TO ENTER OUR COUNTRY.

THE LEGAL IMMIGRANT STANDS IN LONG LINES AND TAKES A CHANCE AT A NEW LIFE THE PROPER WAY.
THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT JUMPS THE LINE AND DOESN'T CARE WHAT YOU SAY ABOUT IT.

bess

Legal immigrants come in legally and have their paper work in order and illegal immigrants sneak into the country without the proper papers or immunizations and tests for things like TB and that kind of thing that can cause sickness here.
Legal Immigrants pay taxes and have tax id no or social security numbers that really belong to them.

JuanCarlosNoMore

Following/respecting the laws of the society you are immigrating to is legal.

Disrespecting in a criminal way the laws of the society in to that country you may enter and making your first act in the host country, a contrarian act, putting you at legal (and other) odds with that country and society ...is an act of illegal immigration.

Crazybird

Filling out the papers and such to be here legally. vs Just crossing the border, or overstaying a visa and getting lost in the country somewhere.

gokart121

www.ice.gov is one reference place to start....can't do your homework for you...

jgarcia8169

Money.

Sorry,Mendi you said it 1st and i agree.

JuanCarlo,what the hell did you say?

michele g

wait inline, register, get innoculated, swear an oath, answer some questions, Are you a criminal? Blah Blah Blah

The bad way , we have to assume you have a disease, you commited a crime, you will not pay taxes, you may want to do harm, you may be a child toucher (we have enough of our own thank you!)

bgood26

Sneaking across the border vs. receiving a work visa.

siervocal

Legal immigration usually implies people that are in good conditions and want to improve them even more by emigrating to a foreign country. They fill the required paperwork by that country, pay the necessary money, wait some years, and then leave.

Illegal immigration, on the other hand, is an act of desperation. These people are usually in horrible situations where food, clothing, and even shelter are scarce. They do not have the time or money to emigrate legally, so they do it illegaly. I Hope I answered your question.

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