I saw this claim on the politics stack exchange in a highly upvoted post... And I have to ask, is this true? It's only been since the 1990s that people have started talking about illegal entry into the US, and that was mainly a matter of drug enforcement: people trying to circumvent import controls to bring in illegal substances, not illegal immigration per se. -- Ted Wrigley politics.stackexchange If this is not the case, does anyone know the earliest reference to illegal immigrants or illeg...