[My2Cents]

This isn't a blanket amnesty, no matter how many of the hardcore hardheads want to characterize it as such.

[AmericanInTokyo]

How silly of you. Read the article again. Read the ACTUAL IMPACT. Tell me it is not amnesty, if not de jure, then certainly de facto.

[AmericanInTokyo]

You are most welcome to kindly read back to me in English the very....first....headline, from this daily Mexican newspaper, a day after Uncle Jorge's announced sellout of our national borders and integrity of the Republic...:

[kevao]

This isn't a blanket amnesty,

What YOU believe is irrelevant. It's what THEY believe that is drawing them here in greater numbers.

[RockyMtnMan]

Call it what you want but it is 'perceived' as an amnesty and perception IS reality no matter what you or Bush call it.

[South40]

This isn't a blanket amnesty, no matter how many of the hardcore hardheads want to characterize it as such.

Yes, it is.

It's blanket because it it applies to anyone who says they have a job.

Amnesty is defined as "A general pardon granted by a government, especially for political offenses."

Our immigration laws are federal laws, and violating them is an affront to the sovereignty of our nation, as well as the individual states. To forgive that offense by granting legal status to these criminals is an amnesty. Deny it all you want, but you can’t change that simple fact.

[FITZ]

This isn't a blanket amnesty, no matter how many of the hardcore hardheads want to characterize it as such.

The Mexican elites do not want 20 million guest workers ever coming back to Mexico to live. There is no way Fox would agree to a 3 year temporary status. The elites there want massive immigration rates because they don't wish to change the government or the status quo which for them is working out very well. Things would have to change if these people ever went back --- that's not what they plan to do.