Newt supports the position of pay a fine, learn English, and get your status legalized. The main difference between the two is citizenship. Newt does this to sell amnesty. He creates a second class of LPR status that will never be upheld by the courts. LPRs have all the duties and privileges of citizenship except the right to vote. They can work, receive entitlement and welfare benefits, have a driver's license, be drafted, sponsor their relatives to come here legally, etc.
Any legislation that allows illegal alliens to stay and work here is amnesty. Citizenship is not the issue. Newt uses it to fool and deceive. Newt supports amnesty.
I always equated amnesty to getting citizenship and the right to vote. That’s the biggest fear I think most conservatives have...is turning lose a bunch of line jumpers on the polls to vote their more freebies for their relatives to come and get some.
What do we do today with someone that has been here 30 years illegally? Do we deport them? If not, are we better off just letting them stay here illegaly, give them a path to residency, or do we round them up and send them back home (where ever that is)?