Well I appreciate the source . I actually read it. Here is the main provision of the 2011 bill
...”the proposed bill would allow any foreigner who invests $500K in residential real estate to earn a three-year residential visa. Some stipulations: buyers would have to pay in cash, live in the home for at least 180 days of the year, apply separately for a work visa, and, of course, deal with issues of citizenship and voting rights separately—they are not included.”
I simply don’t think that is “Amnesty” . I am not against LEGAL immigration. There is not a centilla of “amnesty” in what you resourced . I just beg to differ.
“Amnesty” is where , for example, a Mexican crosses our border, sucks of the largess of welfare ,medical care and education while he repeatly commits crimes but we give the illegal bastard citizenship. That’s what Rubio and Bush and that silly Graham want. That is the McCain style amnesty— not this you cite. —$500,000??? woe.
Lee is an H1B visa pimp who was willing to pass McCain-style comprehensive amnesty in order to get his H1B visa limitations eliminated. He chickened out at the end, but he’s as 2-faced as the rest of them.
Negative. Awarding legal status to that individual is "amnesty".
Citizenship is not the ultimate goal of the majority of Illegals and there's plenty of legal immigrants who don't desire it either. Withholding something they don't want from someone isn't much of a penalty.