[FreeReign]

The President is misrepresenting Amnesty as having to do with an "automatic path to citizenship." That's a false definition. The Reagan Amnesty didn't provide automatic paths to citizenship. Under that amnesty, illegals had to first apply for Lawful Temporary Resident (LTR) status, then wait eighteen months before applying for Lawful Permanent Resident status. Then, after five years, the amnestied illegals could apply for citizenship. Read:

One more time: It was a citizenship amnesty. It bypassed existing quotas. There was no getting in the back of the line.

Of course it was a long drawn out process, but that is what the green card-to-citizenship process normally is.

You're using semantics, or you're just rationalizing away the truth.

[rolling_stone]

One more time: It was a citizenship amnesty. It bypassed existing quotas. There was no getting in the back of the line.

Of course it was a long drawn out process, but that is what the green card-to-citizenship process normally is.

You're using semantics, or you're just rationalizing away the truth.

Uh what citizenship quotas? How long did one have to be here to apply for citizenship? What was the normal length of time to immigrate in 1986? What is currently proposed? Is that bypassing current immigrant quotas?