Here in the United States, is an undocumented immigrant here legally or illegally?

"Undocumented immigrant" is the media's euphemism for illegal.

An undocumented immigrant in reality would actually be an immigrant (a person who has a legal visa valid for immigration purposes issued by the federal government).

So illegals are not actually immigrants at all. They are criminal invaders.

To be an undocumented immigrant, a legal immigrant would have lost their documents. In reality, undocumented doesn't mean that you were denied status and never were eligible for any documents.

But the media today does not use language very carefully, to describe in reality how things actually are. They use language to shape people's emptions.

Illegally.

It used to be 'illegal alien', then 'illegal immigrant', then 'undocumented worker', and there are now people who use the term EWI - entered without inspection.

The media are complicit in this, choosing to not use an 'non-PC' word:

http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/press-drops-il...

Illegal