It is a privilege for illegals to be here, but it is a right, not a privilege, to be an American if you are a legal citizen.
Wow , that is truly Marxist.
“It is a privilege for illegals to be here,”
Nope.
Illegal aliens—the majority Mexican nationals—have no privilege to be here, unless you mean privilege in the sense that their presence is suffered, while real immigrants who follow our immigration laws and rules are not privileged.
Illegal aliens are simply illegal, not exercising a privilege—here because they broke our laws by sneaking across our borders and then living criminal shadow-lives.
The current administration and the Bush administration would have (if they could) simply gifted them American citizenship (And what do you get if you reward bad behavior?) while making the argument here that American citizenship is this really valuable thing that Americans should be willing to be taxed, and taxed again, for enjoying ... while the soundrels collecting the taxes make these specious arguments—and thumb their own noses at our tax and immigration law—and, for that matter, at any law that interferes with their agenda.
priv·i·lege (prv-lj, prvlj)
n.
1.
a. A special advantage, immunity, permission, right, or benefit granted to or enjoyed by an individual, class, or caste. See Synonyms at right.
b. Such an advantage, immunity, or right held as a prerogative of status or rank, and exercised to the exclusion or detriment of others.
2. The principle of granting and maintaining a special right or immunity: a society based on privilege.
The latter is exactly right, the first is not. It is not a privilege but an effrontery for “undocumented” alien to come here from a country which would arrest me in a heartbeat if I were “undocumented” there whether or not I claimed “citizen of the world” status there.