undocumented alien

“He wasn’t really captured in the context of hostilities. If that happened to us, we’d probably designate him as an undocumented alien who crossed the border without a visa,” Corn said.

Turns out he is an undocumented alien.

“There are certain things you cannot report an undocumented alien for — an undocumented person for,” Mr. Biden said.

Wait, he’s an undocumented alien?

Oates is a master of many different kinds of story, including the gothic and something like science fiction — “Fractal,” for example, and the extraordinary “Undocumented Alien,” which follows a Nigerian man tricked into applying for a bogus degree at a New Jersey engineering college.