What do ideologues, propagandists, and demagogues have in common and do best? They constantly try to confuse and mislead the public!
In Western countries there has been an ongoing deliberate attempt and effort to confuse and muddy these terms listed in the title!
Beware of many of the elite, intellectuals and media, who are very much involved in stoking this propaganda and demagoguery on a daily basis!
One of the worst examples of this (Marxist) demagoguery has been the transition from illegal alien to illegal immigrant to undocumented immigrant to migrant to non- citizen voter. Almost Orwellian!
Migrants used to be properly defined as people who move from place to place for better opportunities or as a life style within a certain geographic region. Then there are the traditional cross-border migrants, who usually return. In modern times, migrants may use airplanes etc.
Immigrants/emigrants tend to enter a new home country or they leave their home country often for very serious reasons and they intend to move permanently or to stay often in their chosen home country for a long time until better conditions emerge in their home countries.
An emigrant may not be the same person as an immigrant: An emigrant leaves his/her home country to live somewhere else, but the person may never adopt another home country.
Concerning the legal status: Well, it appears to be far easier to confer citizen status (voting rights, welfare benefits, working permits etc.) on a migrant than an immigrant (as far as the US is concerned). Who pays for that? Legal citizens!
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