Newt is for Amnesty. He changes the definition because he knows that no one will like what he proposes if he calls it what it really is. So he uses semantics to try to confuse those who don’t know any better.
This definition is much more apropos to the subject:
Just because they don’t get citizenship doesn’t mean it isn’t amnesty. If they are not held accountable to the law as it existed at the time they violated it, they are getting amnesty. The law they violated REQUIRES deportation and anything else IS AMNESTY.
You and Newt may have your own pet name for it, but we all know what it really is.
Newt does. He calls it a path to non-deportation.
Probably the most brazen exercise in doublespeak yet in the amnesty debate.
And that's saying something.