What is AMNESTY? A sovereign act of pardon and oblivion for past acts, granted by a government to all persons (or to certain persons) who have been guilty of crime or delict, generally political offenses.
What is PARDON? An act of grace, proceeding from tlie power intrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed.
Amnesty is a pardon granted to a group of people who've committed the same crime(s).
A pardon exempts the amnestied from the punishments prescribed by law.
Juan McCain and Ted Cruz and W and numerous politicians have played games with the definition of amnesty. If the punishment prescribed by law is not applied, its's an amnesty.
All this BS about allowing illegals to stay, no matter what it's called, and saying that's not amnesty, is just politicians lying through their teeth to fool the voters, and to avoid using the politically toxic term "amnesty"..
Actually, any proposal short of deportation is an amnesty plus the jackpot of being allowed to stay in the US and probably become a citizen. Double and triple lies from politicians who play the amnesty word game.
#97 should have been to comment #1.