The Globe correctly doesn't use the term "illegal immigrant." 
It was first used in 1939 as a slur by the British toward Jews fleeing Nazis and entering Palestine without authorization. Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel has said that "no human being is illegal." Migrant workers residing unlawfully in the U.S. are not -- and never have been -- criminals. They are subject to deportation, through a civil administrative procedure that differs from criminal prosecution.  In Canada, and the U.S.,  there is still a presumption of innocence that requires a jury to convict someone of a crime. If you don't pay your taxes, are you an illegal? What if you get a speeding ticket? A murder conviction? No. You're still not an illegal.