The Reagan amnesty made everyone who had been in this country illegally for a certain length of time legible to become a citizen. It rewarded law breaking. The Bush plan does it's best to restore order to immigration. It doesn't forgive their crime and put them in front of the line to become citizens.
It doesn't forgive their crime and put them in front of the line to become citizens.It sure does forgive their crime, unless I'm wrong in saying that no illegal who registers for the program will be imprisoned or deported for having violated U.S. immigration law.
Sorry, but when a criminal has been forever absolved of his past infractions, he has indeed been granted...amnesty.