The PATHWAY to Citizenship lies in taking any such restrictions to court. There is no way the Supreme Court would allow a law that creates a category of people who are granted permanent residency with no opportunity to apply for citizenship. That would be tantamount to slavery.
Therefore any plan which makes illegal aliens permanent residents IS a PATH TO CITIZENSHIP.
Or are you just too dense to see that?
Q: Should undocumented immigrants all be deported?
A: There is no way that in the US we would roundup every illegal immigrant--......
Q: So you support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants?
A: I do because I understand why people would want to be in America.
http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Sarah_Palin_Immigration.htm