there’s no probably about it. baby kal el was not people at the time of its entry into the earth’s atmosphere.
unless–i’ll grant you this–the assertion is that the superman universe overlapped with the MIB universe, where agreements and laws did exist for the immigration of extraterrestrial beings onto earth.
but kryptonians aren’t people, either. without exception.
an arctic tern isn’t a birth citizen. a canadian goose isn’t a birth citizen. they just lands there in winter en route to warmer climes.
it’s not illegal for them to do so.
kal el was as human as ET. laws made for man should not apply to him.
that logic would make all migratory birds illegal. imaginary lines drawn by men do not have legal significance in such cases (except for smuggling scenarios, which kal el’s was not).
how was kal el illegal? there were no laws against extraterrestrial beings, were there?
if that’s truly the case, shouldn’t the art form be written as “agnam”?