I must have read 90% or more of articles re Amnesty here and on blogs and news sites. In only one or two was there focus on the biometric ID. So while somebody is claiming credit, “I ain’t buyin’” -— and deleting the national ID from the legislation would not revive it.
It's probably more simple than we are making it out to be:
The official line will be 'smart ID' because that is the element they need most to sell to the public.
Amnesty cannot be credited because the powers that be are determined that it is mandatory. They will actively downplay it as a barrier to 'reform' & it will not go away.
I look for two things in the fallout:
A publicity campaign about how benign a universal smart ID will be for everyone, in contrast to the 'racist' concept of monitoring only illegals (mexicans) striving for a better life (sic ) in our territory.
And, relaxation of even today's lame border enforcement to show the great unwashed (us) that we'd have been much happier had our congress been allowed to pass the 'great compromise'. Throughout the Senate circus they hammered the idea that failure to accept the fiat would mean less security - watch for proof.