Like tens of thousands of other Central Americans who have poured into Brownsville recently, they had not been legally admitted into the country.

The speaker, whose name no one seemed to be able to pronounce, was the first of her species to be admitted legally onto a Confederate world in more than a century.

In 1997 Mr. Rios, a legally admitted alien from Mexico, applied to become a U.S. citizen.

Once a refugee has fled their country into a neighboring country, there is a five-step process before they can be legally admitted into the United States of America.

It voted to correct a legislative mistake that has had cruel consequences for thousands of legally admitted aliens: the retroactive deportation feature of the 1996 Immigration Act.

While he had been legally admitted to the United States in 1980, he had never completed the application to gain permanent status.

Nationwide, 1,800 Irish immigrants were legally admitted last year; of the 1.2 million illegal aliens who have applied for amnesty, 500 came from Ireland.

I think he'll save them, get them to be admitted legally.

Overall, between 1966 and 2002 119,000 Dominicans were legally admitted to Puerto Rico, while many thousands arrived illegally.

But the hostility really seems to extend to all immigrants, legally admitted or not.