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Perhaps you'd like to read up on the issue. He makes a provision to allow illegals to be "on the road to legal status." Read: Keep your head down and I'll make you a citizen. Like 245i...this is nothing but a back door amnesty. He doesn't even have the guts to be honest about it..has to hide it in the fine print!

The reason I think it is unfair to call this 'amnesty' is that the amnesty advocates want a blanket conversion of illegals into legals. That is what was done in 1986. That's not Bush's plan. In the guest worker plan, illegals have no special 'place in line' to get these guest workers visas. And after 3 years, they can apply but have no special place in line for the permanent residency vias. The only part that smacks of amnesty is the ability to apply for this from the US with a fee for being here. It's a path, but a narrow and confined one.

"Read: Keep your head down and I'll make you a citizen." only if there is a massive increase in the LPRs granted each year ... yes, it is a road to citizenship, but it is the same road that we already have in law. Guest workers need to apply for LPR like everyone else. This is far different from the amnesty bill proposals from the Democrats, which would blanket convert 10 million illegals into Democrat-voting-zombie-citizens.

To me, the key is how many permanent resident visas will they allow each year. IMHO they should abolish the Diversity Visa quotients and the Chain Migration visas and keep the same caps. We will then fill those #s with hard workers.

The other real problem is this: IMHO, the proposal is hardly worse than the status quo, but the status quo is not acceptable. We need to enforce the laws on immigration.