THe 5+ year program is SEPARATE from the temporary worker program.
The Temporary worker program as Bush pitches it requires they leave when they are done, and does NOT offer a path to citizenship.
Right now we give amnesty to illegal immigrants. If we catch them, we do NOT punish them at all, we simply send them home.
Amnesty never meant you can keep breaking the law, it meant that we wouldn't punish you for breaking the law before.
So, it isn't "Amnesty" if we make them pay a fine. it IS amnesty if we send them home without punishing them.
So, oddly, the "deport them all" gang wants amnesty, and the President with his "5+ year pay a fine and back taxes" plan is NOT amnesty.
However, the "deport them all" gang doesn't give them citizenship. Bush's plan DOES. But getting citizenship is not "amnesty". It's getting citizenship. We should be chanting "No Citizenship" if that's what we mean.
Illegal,lawbreaking aliens should never get citizenship. That's rewarding criminality.