You can slice it and dice it any way you choose...FORGIVING the OFFENSE of illegal entry by giving ANY illegal alien ANY opportunity for ANY path to citizenship IS AMNESTY.
Have you ever heard any Republican, or Dem for that matter, ADMIT that they are FOR “amnesty for illegal aliens”? Of course not.
We’ve learned NOTHING if we haven’t learned after all these years that “comprehensive immigration reform” and a “path to citizenship” are nothing but code for AMNESTY.
Most of us recognize that fact. The only people who deny it are the people who support it, in which case discussing it is a complete waste of time.
Who ever said anything about "forgiving" illegal alien trespassers or putting them on an automatic conveyor belt to legal citizenship?
Giving someone who's previously broken our immigration laws a chance to go home and come back into this country via the legal immigration route is not amnesty.
Different terms have different definitions. Look them up if you have to. The terms you're throwing around have distinctly different definitions, and mean different things.
I think you're making yourself nuts over things that no one has even suggested, with the possible exception of McAmnesty & Grahamnesty. Palin has certainly never suggested any such thing.