Ooooh--just stoped my fundy relatives in their tracks!

[Curmudgeoness]

38. That doesn't mean

that he was not "an outsider" who did not belong there.

Jesus is a Galilean and is referred to as such throughout the Gospels. Our modern conception of nation states did not exist at the time of Jesus, so neither our modern conception of “immigrants.” However, Jesus and his followers are remarked upon throughout the Gospels as “Galileans” and have an outsider status in Jerusalem because they are from client kingdom in the North. This was not a positive association for the residents of Jerusalem. Jesus was thought of in Jerusalem similarly to how Mexican and other Latin American immigrants are thought of in the U.S. based upon “outsider” geo-political status.

http://christiandifferent.com/2008/05/14/seek-the-kingdom-towards-jesus-christ-immigrant/

I do not know how the different parts of the Roman Empire were treated in Jesus' day, but they were not all considered "Rome". But I do know that Egypt was a foreign land to them. Even the Romans still had separate names for all the nations that they conquered, so I would guess that people who were not from a particular area were immigrants. Illegal immigrants, I am not able to say for sure, but I bet Herod would have thought so since they fled to a nation that did not have the decree to kill him.