....”How can citizenship for illegals not be amnesty?.......
Here’s the deal.... We have a pathway to citizenship now and have had for many, many years. Millions of people have followed that pathway. The got visa’s and came to this country according to the rules. They then worked to meet the requirements of citizenship and most ultimately obtained that prize. On the other hand, you have criminals who broke the law to enter the country and most of them continue to break the laws daily as they refuse to meet the same standards as other workers do. And many of them illegally steal benefits that legal aliens and citizens pay for.
So it boils down to this: ....Are law breakers going to be given the benefits that people who obey the law don’t get or are we going to enforce the “path to citizenship” that law abiding immigrants have followed.
If you want it put in simpler terms, think about it this way. The next time you go to Wal-Mart or McDonalds, and there is a line, just ask yourself: Is it ok for someone to just break in line in front of everybody else and expect to be checked out?
And if you want to put a more descriptive metaphor on it, imagine that when that line breaker got to the cash register that he demanded that the clerk give him his stuff free and take the money from those in line behind him.
Illegals don’t belong in this country at all, and they have disqualified themselves from US citizenship.
Let them go home with the free education and whatever else they stole from us—and build up their own countries.
I like your word picture! ...simple, succinct!