illegal immigrant
noun [C] (also illegal alien)Definition
› LAW a person who comes to live or work in a country that is not their own when they do not have the legal right to do this: They were breaking the law by employing illegal immigrants without papers.
(Definition of illegal immigrant noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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