[george wythe]

These illegal immigrants are being granted amnesty by virtue of the fact that they will not be prosecuted or deported for the crime of entering this country illegally.

That's your interpretation.

The illegal alien will have to pay a fine or fee to obtain a blue card, while the alien abroad can obtain the blue card for free.

The illegal alien has to make a choice of whether to return to his country and obtain the blue card for free, or whether to apply in the US and pay the fine.

Furthermore, the blue card does not lead to US citizenship. Period.

The amnesty given by President Reagan lead to million of new US citizens.

[CalKat]

Amnesty does not requre citizenship.

[PhiKapMom]

The amnesty given by President Reagan lead to million of new US citizens.

And may I add new voters!

[FITZ]

Didn't we already have quite a few guest worker programs --- like H1B and a whole lot of others? This seems only to add on another --- soon to become very very large --- but what happens to the illegal who would rather not fill out forms, or go through a background check or wait for our government to process his along with 8 or whatever million applications, or for the government to match him with a job --- and he just goes ahead and comes over and finds a job on his own?

To me this looks like we've added a new type of guest worker --- only it's going to be millions but this won't solve the problem with massive migration and much of it illegal.