This is amnesty for Mexican lawbreakers that have entered the USA illegally.
...or those who want to come to the United States to work. But he said he would not offer amnesty.
Mr Bush won't call it amnesty, but thats exactly what it is!
It's not amnesty. It's getting a grip on a big problem.
My daughter is a cop in a Western city, and when she arrests these people, they pull out twenty different forms of ID in 20 different names, and nobody knows who they are. If she calls them by one of their "names," they don't even look up, so that obviously was not their name in the first place.
To deal with the problem of illegals, we have to start somewhere, and that somewhere is by identifying them.
"Amnesty" means offering or granting citizenship to these people, which is exactly what Kerry said in the last debate that he was going to do: "People who have been here and haven't caused any problems," as I recall.
Bush is getting names and addresses; they can stay for now, but they're not on a fast track to citizenship. And now we at least have their data, and so does Mexico (which is extremely bad about repatriating people), and Mexico will no longer be able to deny it.