Illegal Alien Research Paper

According to the dictionary, the word ‘alien’ can be used as either a noun or an adjective. As a noun, it can mean a person whose native country is not the one which they are currently residing in. It can also take the form of a noun meaning anyone who has become estranged or excluded. The final form that the word ‘alien’ can take as a noun is an extraterrestrial creature. ‘Alien’ can also at to describe something as extraterrestrial through the form of an adjective. Additionally, it can be used to describe something strange or unlike one’s own. Similarly to the word ‘alien’, the word ‘exotic’ can also mean many of the same things. It can mean something that is not native to a country, or it can mean something strikingly unusual or strange.
But why? Why is it that someone in a country illegally is called an illegal alien rather than an illegally present exotic? Perhaps, this connotation comes from the extraterrestrial side of the word alien. There is often a prejudice against people who reside in a country that they are not registered in. For example, in the United States, illegal immigrants do not pay taxes to support the schools that they attend, the roads that they drive on, or the national security that they reap the benefits of. Additionally, the illegal immigrants are not registered with the United States, which gives them the ability to offer their work for less pay. This entices business leaders to hire them over the registered and tax paying citizen of the United States. Often times, illegal immigrants are looked upon as drug smugglers, and lower class citizens who raise the tax burden upon the tax paying citizens as well as bringing up the unemployment rate in America. Because of this view, they are seen as different. They are seen as strange and a nuisance. They are seen as alien: something from somewhere out of this