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And the number of additional LEGAL immigrants who would join those who were the recipients of amnesty through chain migration, i.e., family reunification
The problem with your post is that you equate Newt's plan to amnesty, even though he specifically states they would NOT get citizenship. Then you cite the Heritage Foundation on the consequences of amnesty being chain migration. Yet you are missing that the Heritage Foundation is specifically defining amnesty as granting citizenship. Only the families of CITIZENS are entitled to family reunification.
This doesn't have to do with citizenship. It has to do with legalization of their status to stay and work here. Essentially, they will be able to receive everything a citizen does except vote. 50% of illegal aliens lack even a high school degree. They are filling 8 million jobs in this country at a time when 25 million Americans are looking for a full time job. We already have 300,000 to 400,000 anchor babies who receive birthright citizenship.
Yet you are missing that the Heritage Foundation is specifically defining amnesty as granting citizenship. Only the families of CITIZENS are entitled to family reunification.
Not so. Green card holders can have their families join them. People in an LPR status have the right to bring spouses and minor children into the country. And it is pure sophistry to believe that once you legalize the 12 to 20 million illegals in this country, there won't be a move to provide them with a path to citizenhip. And I doubt that Congress would ever pass what amounts to second class citizenship for millions of people. It is the camel's nose under the tent.