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FORGIVING the OFFENSE of illegal entry by giving ANY illegal alien ANY opportunity for ANY path to citizenship IS AMNESTY.

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.

THE ATTRITION SOLUTION - Rep. Steve King

"I emphatically disagree with statements Sen. Mel Martinez made recently to the Washington Times ("New RNC chief backs bill with guest-worker plan" Page 1, Feb. 2). Mr. Martinez wants to grant illegal aliens a "path to citizenship." This represents nothing less than endorsement of a mass amnesty for many millions of illegal aliens. Americans reject mass amnesty by large margins. Amnesty is an affront to native-born Americans, to legal immigrants, and to the very concept of the rule of law.

Amnesty can be dressed up as "earned legalization," "going to the back of the line" or a "path to citizenship," but it is still amnesty. Do we give bank robbers "earned plunder" or make them "go to the end of the line" to get their pillage or a "path towards keeping their prize"? Consider two brothers living in Mexico City. One came to the United States illegally. The other stayed in Mexico and supports his family there. Mr. Martinez would grant the brother who broke our laws permanent residence and then citizenship in our country. He would grant no such prizes to the brother who stayed in Mexico. This is the worst kind of amnesty -- it grants huge benefits that are reserved only for those who have broken our laws. "......

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2007/feb/11/20070211-102906-4055r/