Sentence examples for she was illegal from inspiring English sources
It turned out she was illegal, and they didn't want to get caught.
"I can not tell you how stunned we were when Nicky told us she was illegal," she said.
"A little girl in my daughter's class asked when she was going to go to Mexico because she was illegal," said a 27-year-old woman who gave her name as Arelly, the mother of a fourth grader.
She was illegal, she said, and headed to her chicken plant shift.
She has been in the US for 11 years, her son is a US citizen, but she is illegal.
When nearby policemen snicker and tell her to move along or laugh that she's "illegal," Reyes barks back; often, her hecklers relent.
A 16-year-old Guatemalan girl, who asked to be identified only as G.O. because she is illegal and a minor and was not involved in the raid, said she had been working the night shift plucking chickens.
While she realizes what she did was illegal, she said Indians should be held to a different standard.
The question is whether that information got to Stewart, how it got there and whether her knowing what she knew was illegal.
"A lot of the work that she did, it was illegal, but she was saving lives," Ireland said.
