The New York Times news article about President Obama suddenly acknowledging that he had lived with his illegal immigrant uncle manages, oddly, to avoid describing the uncle as illegal. The Boston Globe provides a much more straightforward account:
His uncle had lived in the United States illegally since the 1970s and revealed for the first time in testimony that his famous nephew had stayed at his Cambridge apartment for about three weeks. At the time, Onyango Obama was here illegally and fighting deportation.