How fascinating.
Actually it is. It's critical to the President's hopes for his guest worker amnesty that people don't think of it as an amnesty. The polls show that word is radioactive. So amnesty acquires ever shifting definitons and imaginary distinctions from previous amnesties. The President and his allies have gone to great pains over this wordplay. It's quite a marvel, not unlike the attempted redefinitions of "is" and "sex" of the previous millenium.
Clarity is necessary, if sometimes drudgery, no? LOL