THREAD on the usage of ‘illegal’ to describe people -- like "illegal migrants" -- in our reports, etc

While writing ‘No Land’s People’, I came across some fascinating conversations around the world on the usage of ‘illegal’ to describe people. (This didn’t go into the book.) In 2016, journalist Maria Hinojosa told a Donald Trump advisor on MSNBC he shouldn’t use “illegals” to describe immigrants - “What you can do is that you can say it is an immigrant living illegally or an immigrant living without papers or without documents in this country."