According to the Dictionary.com, immigrant is an act of a person who coming to another country, usually for permanent residence. There are many reasons for a person to migrate to another country, including economic [pertaining to the production, distribution, and use of income, wealth, and commodities], political, family re-unification, natural disaster, poverty or the wish to change one's surroundings voluntarily. Illegal immigration is the migration of foreign citizens into a country without formal permission. Illegal immigration has numerous and complex causes, usually person from poor countries seeking better life opportunities in more developed countries, simply they what to change they achieve status [social position a person takes on voluntarily that reflects personal ability and effort] that they cannot do in their countries. Most of illegal immigrant doesn’t have sufficient education background and poor, because the lacks in education they can only work as manual labor in their country and their get very little money from hard day work, and they have to worked very hard to gain something or sometimes gain nothing. By migrating to more develop country they have a chance to improve their economic status [social position that a person holds].
In Malaysia generally there are two ways how a person’s become an illegal immigrant, first their entering this country with legal ways and with appropriate document, and their overstay and violate their visa. Secondly their entering Malaysia by crossing the border illegally, because Malaysia is surrounded by sea and this make border crossing become the first choice of illegal immigrant to come to Malaysia. Illegal immigration has impact on political, economic, social [living or disposed to live in companionship with others or in a community, rather than in isolation] and ethical issues.
With Malaysian multi-racial society that promote multiculturalism [perspective that cultural