[Luis Gonzalez]

"Abrogation means elimination, change means change."

And the law has not changed by the way, but the mode, the mechanism, and parameters of assessing penalties for disobeying the law have.

They have not been eliminated, they are simply different.

Nice try however.

Reducing the range of penalties allowed for conviction of a crime is in no way abrogating. Removing them altogether would be.

[William Terrell]

And the law has not changed by the way, but the mode, the mechanism, and parameters of assessing penalties for disobeying the law have. They have not been eliminated, they are simply different. Nice try however. Reducing the range of penalties allowed for conviction of a crime is in no way abrogating. Removing them altogether would be.

With the net result of abrogation of the crime; amnesty in fact. For those illegals that apply, they are no longer illegal. The laws against illegals don't apply to them.

They become a group that has had the consequences of their crime removed. They have been awarded amnesty. Amnesty in all other senses of the word means removing the subjects from the sanctions of a law. The law is still in effect, but the penalties thereof no longer affect them.