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n.A foreign national present in a country without legal permission to be there.
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008.
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an illegal entrant being a person unlawfully entering, or seeking to enter, in breach of a deportation order or of the immigration laws and includes a person who has so entered: Immigration Act 1971.
Collins dictionary of law. W. J. Stewart. 2001.
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Category: Immigration
Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary. Gerald N. Hill, Kathleen Thompson Hill. 2009.
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n.an alien (non-citizen) who has entered the United States without government permission or stayed beyond the termination date of a visa.See also: alien
Law dictionary. EdwART. 2013.
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