An act can be illegal. I don't see how a person can be illegal. Being in a country illegally is an act, not an inherent property of a person. Trying to say a p

An act can be illegal. I don't see how a person can be illegal. Being in a country illegally is an act, not an inherent property of a person. Trying to say a person is illegal seems like a non-starter for useful reasoning because it seems to absolve people of responsibility for their actions, since nothing can be done about who a person inherently is.