[postflopclarity]

US policy has also nearly completely eliminated the distinction, by making legal immigration close to impossible and ~arresting~ kidnapping people at courthouses who are there for their immigration hearings, then shipping them off to foreign torture camps.

[didgetmaster]

It is so nearly impossible, that somewhere between a half million and a million people have done it every year for the past few decades (including last year).

[postflopclarity]

correct. that number is a small fraction of the backlog. it's a big country.