The number of those receiving amnesty is not what defines the term.
If the government says that people who have broken a certain law, have not been apprehended, and if the law violators perform certain acts, the specific crime they committed will go away; that is amnesty. It has nothing to do with citizenship.
Governor Perry’s proposal is amnesty. It will forgive a criminal act committed by people who have not been apprehended or convicted. Pure and simple.
Okay, I concede. It was a misunderstanding on my part. All I would point out is that amnesty is often confused with offering legal citizenship as part of the amnesty, and that the distinction is sometimes forgotten, as I did.
That said, if the “amnesty” only involved sending them home and having those who wished to do so return with green cards (issued under our control in the number we specified), and treating those who remained here illegally as illegal aliens, why on earth would you object to that? It would essentially solve the problem, assuming we then tightened up the borders, unless you think that we don’t need any migrant help at all...which is another issue, I’ll readily admit.