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by jtreminio 4140 days ago
I know this is a touchy subject for many people, so I'll pardon your lack of reading and understanding TFA, but I'll paste the important parts here for you to re-read several times until it clicks:

> Mexican immigrant Jordi Munoz says that waiting for his green card after he first moved to the United States made him feel as if he was living "in a big jail".

He may or may not have been an "illegal alien". He was waiting for his green card which would have given him authorization to work legally within the USA.

This is reiterated here:

> Yet he could not legally work, or even enrol at a college, until he got the identity card that proved his right to live and seek employment in the country.

This in the following paragraph it says:

> But instead of just sitting around during his frustrating seven-month wait back in 2007, Mr Munoz, a keen model plane enthusiast and computer programmer, started to build his own drone in his garage.

Nowhere does it say he was an "illegal alien" while he built a company. Nowhere does it mention he used "illegal documents", or built an "illegal business". Irregardless, he seems to now be a fully-authorized resident building a fully legal business.

Take your xenophobia and lack of reading comprehension somewhere else.

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Regardless