[kevao]

The proposal set forth by the President will have to be debated in Congress. The one Republican bill I saw said there would be a $1500 fine for breaking the immigration law and these people would be put at the back of the line. I don't see how that equates to amnesty.

Is anyone going to be deported, or pay in any way, for having violated U.S. immigration law? No. That's a de facto amnesty.

Just because you can still be punished for future violations of the law, when you have been forever absolved from your past infractions, you have indeed been granted amnesty.

[NittanyLion]

Just because you can still be punished for future violations of the law, when you have been forever absolved from your past infractions, you have indeed been granted amnesty.

Exactly.