<non-offensive adjective meaning illegal> immigration

Two Kinds of Immigration published by the Boston Globe, is a politically correct article emphasizing the distinction between the pros and cons of "unauthorized" or "undocumented" immigration. The authors refused to repeat that one specific word, however, if they could help it. Instead they jumped through hoops, and probably wasted hours in a thesaurus comming up with alternative, unassuming words to replace it. Why? I have no clue. It's unnecessary in the extreme. Call it undocumented, unauthorized, unofficial, or ever so slightly unbeknown to the governemnt, and it's all the same. These people are here, and they are not here legally. When you do something that is not legal, we have recently invented a new word especially for that, and it's called "illegal". You can come up with euphemizations for me punching someone in the face on my way to class, but, at the end of the day from a legal perspective, it's assualt. Period. No way around it. Just like these immigrants. They're here, and they're not supposed to be. That's illegal. The article points out that between 2000 and 2005, persons over the age of 16 lost 4.8 million jobs. The number of immigrants who claimed to have found jobs in that time interval, was 4.13 million. About 2/3 of those immigrants are calculated to be here illegally. So, what's that about them not taking jobs? Immigrant workers ate 86% of those lost jobs. In an interesting paragraph, the article explains that migrant workers make remodeling, lawn care, housecleaning, and child care easier for wealtheir families. I can't believe such vivid and succinct stereotypical ideologies could possibly have been published in the Globe. My respect for that paper has now gone down two full notches with the reading of this one article. And, at the end, they even go on to say that in "future debates" we "need to clearly distinguish between the economic benefits and costs of legal and illegal immigration." What? I'm sorry... what happened to "principle over property"? Is that what our country is comming to? "Well, who gives a <place crude & derogatory term here> about what's right, or about what SHOULD happen, let's just go with what will benefit the economy here and now. Holy freakin God... I can't believe people can be so shortsighted. Okay, I need to calm down... I'm done for now.