Amnesty means if you're here in the USA and you can prove you've been here for some period of time .. you can be given US citizenship.
That is not in anyway related to the Bush plan.
The worker plan, as I understand it, requires the employer to contract with specific migrant workers for a specific job for a specific period of time.
That's never been the definition of amnesty in the past. For example, the Reagan amnesty didn't do that.
The worker plan, as I understand it, requires the employer to contract with specific migrant workers for a specific job for a specific period of time.
Generally, yes, that's how a guest worker program should work, but the rub is in the details. Tancredo's proposal operates on that principle for legitimate migrants without legalizing any illegal aliens. The Bush proposal legalizes illegal aliens who've been working illegally, and gives them an advantage over guest worker applicants who've followed the rules and aren't yet matched with a prospective employer.
The problem with any "period-of-time" is that you know full well that Vicente Fox and his fellow elites would scream if they believed these people would ever return to their homeland. Fox isn't satisfied that one out of five of the citizens of Mexico are living here now --- he fully intends to get a whole lot more out. Nothing is changing or improving in Mexico -- and the crime there is skyrocketing out of control --- something else Fox chooses to ignore.
What about the 15 million who are already here, on welfare, using our medical services for free, filling our schools, filling our prisons? If the "guestworker" plan is granted to a few million, what happens to the other millions? Deportation, NAAHH!