>>This is NOT true. They will have legal status immediately.<<
You are correct. The bill makes a specific exemption in 601(h). I must have heard that lie 50 times today "NOTHING goes forward UNTIL...." Most recently Juan Williams said it again on the O'Reilly Factor. What's worse, even though the trigger exemption is clearly in the bill, these charlatans accuse anyone who disagrees with them of not reading the bill.
"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it" - Goebbels