This is, unfortunately, an example of fake news. By not putting the word illegal in there the author is intentionally misleading the reader as there is no issue with legal immigrants. If the author were talking about a particular person and confused their immigration status, that is not fake news as it is simply an error. It is the intent to conflate illegal with legal that bumps this to fake news status. I suspect the author as well as the DP are well aware of their duplicity.

This is why it is much easier, more descriptive, and causes less confusion to use the proper term; illegal alien.