You apparently don’t understand that someone must be held accountable to the law as it existed at the time they acted.
Nobody is talking about people who came here legally under the existing migrant worker program. Nobody is talking about people who come here under an expanded migrant worker program. Nobody is talking about people who go home and then come back after waiting their turn and being accepted and legally registered under some legal worker program.
We are talking about people ALREADY HERE who came here ILLEGALLY, but now being allowed to stay under some legal worker program. They would be taken from an ILLEGAL status to a LEGAL status. They have broken the law, acknowledge they’ve broken the law, yet will not be held accountable under that law. That is what Newt proposes. That is unquestionably AMNESTY.
Newt is thinking out of the box on this issue.
He is defining different categories of illegals, and his program would not provide any of them with amnesty.
None of the illegals would be made citizens, unless they go back to their country of origin, and go through all of the hoops necessary to become citizens.
The argument has changed, but apparently not with some here.