Well... No. It isn’t.
Amnesty is what everyone else will pass after ignoring Rand because people like you would rather sit around grousing about crap he isn’t proposing.
Debate over immigration plan could come down to definition of amnesty
[snip]Critics of the blueprint and the Obama plan insist theyre invoking the term amnesty because its precise, not because its loaded.
Unless you are removed from the United States, youre getting an amnesty, said Rosemary Jenks, director of government affairs at NumbersUSA, a group that pushes for reduced immigration. The open border advocate side has turned it into a pejorative word. Amnesty is forgiving the violation of a law without applying the penalties under the law.
Deportation is one of the penalties for being caught in this country illegally, though the ongoing presence of 11 million people is testament to how rarely thats applied. Enforcement in recent years has focused on those who commit crimes once theyre here.
Jenks asserted that path to citizenship is a far more misleading euphemism, at least when it comes to the Senate blueprint. Under that proposal, illegal immigrants would gain probationary status that shields them from deportation as soon as they register and another artful phrase come out of the shadows.
Amnesty occurs on Day 1, Jenks said. The other side has tried to argue that its not amnesty unless you hand out a naturalization certificate on Day 1.