Reply #4: No we call them criminals. If you commit a crime, wether it be a

[napi21]

misdemeanot or a felony, you are a criminal! Would you prefer we call anyone who crossed the border and STAYED a criminal? OK, we can do that!

I suspect the word "illegals" came into the language because people didn't want to say the word criminal, and it just sounds a bit odd to say "criminal aliens". That indicates someone who crossed the border illegally, & committed an additional crime.