[CowboyJay]

"He noted that at least 40 percent of an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the country came on legal visas but then overstayed."

Sounds like a good enough reason to seriously curtail legal visas. That program needs to be rolled back to a level that can be adequately administered. But that's not what he's proposing.

"His plan would give a temporary “nonimmigrant visa” to illegal immigrants, which would allow them to remain and work in the United States. They would have to wait a “significant but reasonable” period of time before they could apply to become legal permanent residents, going to the back of the line in the existing system. Once they became residents, they could go on like other legal immigrants to naturalize as citizens."

Can someone please tell me how his plan differs significantly from McCain/Kennedy?

[kabar]

Can someone please tell me how his plan differs significantly from McCain/Kennedy?

It is the same repackaged crap. And it contains much of the same stuff as Hagel-Martinez that passed the Rep-controlled Senate in 2006.