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It doesn't make the person be illegal, but we nounify crimes to describe people who have committed said crime all the time.
The whole point of the "undocumented worker" language is to make it sound like someone who misplaced some paperwork, rather than someone who violated immigration law.
I mean, no one gets mad when you use the more common terms to describe an undocumented procurement specialist, an adverse euthanasia specialist or an unauthorized sexual partner. Despite those terms describing the person as being their violation of law.
For sure. I just meant that they intentionally and repeatedly use this wording to obscure the fact that undocumented status isn't that big a problem (it doesn't hurt anyone except maybe the undocumented person), as well as to reinforce the idea on a subconscious level that they're somehow dangerous criminals.