The point is, all illegals are technically granted amnesty from the moment this bill is passed. DHS has six months to set up the so-called registration process, but in the meantime, illegals will not be deportable. While registration is ongoing (and my guess is that it will continue indefinitely), virtually no one will be deported, under the assumption that they are eligible for the visa, even if they haven't registered yet. In fact, INS/ICE agents will be required to help them register.
Those currently being paid off the books can continue to work without a visa under the protective umbrella of this bill, whether they register or not.
This is the true heart and great danger of the bill, which the Quislings (in politics and the MSM) are still obfuscating, with bogus red herrings about touchbacks for green cards etc.
The day the bill is passed, virtually every illegal alien in the USA becomes legal, for life.
I was led to believe that the visas will be granted only to those illegals that are here now. Any illegals that come here after the bill’s passage will not be granted the visas and I believe I am correct. Why else would we be having the flap over merit versus extended family exceptions if everyone from here on out is granted a visa? If you believe differently please point me to your sources. The illegals fill a demand that no one else can. The demand is for cheap labor that business needs not to worry about their labor rights. Just because they become legal doesn’t mean that demand will go away. The only way that demand WILL go away is if the gov’t gets as serious about enforcement at the business level as it does about tax dodgers and SEC violators.