Possible Compromise On Immigration Reform Takes Shape [12M Illegals Immediate Amnesty!]

CNN ^ | January 28, 2013 | Dana Bash and Tom Cohen

[DustyMoment]

Except that this isn’t citizenship.

Yes, it is. The plan leads to amnesty and provides a path to citizenship. That's rewarding invaders and lawbreakers with citizenship instead of jail.

[JCBreckenridge]

Exactly - that’s what you should be hammering away at - that it provides a path to citizenship.

I also don’t think it’s tenable to provide any sort of temporary legal status in America without such a path. It will eventually become one even if the path is initially blocked.

The solution is simply not to provide any status at all, unless they leave the country.

[AmericanExceptionalist]

“that the citizenship that had been bestowed upon millions of illegals might be suddenly rescinded...”

That’s not what this is offering, FWIW. Citizenship would still take the 5 years after the green card, even if this were to pass tomorrow. This isn’t even an offer of a green card - it’s a provisional status. Registration with the government, payment of back taxes and a fine of an unspecified amount. Plus - getting to the back of the line wrt green card applications.

There are enough things wrong with the proposed bill as is. No enforcement mechanism is the biggest.

Actually, you are correct.

I should rephrase.

Krauthammer noted--correctly, I believe--that the amnesty that is being offered would not likely be rescinded.

Nor would citizenship be, if acquired later...

[JCBreckenridge]

The problem is - it’s all tied to vague, unspecified promises of enforcement. There’s nothing there. It’s instant amnesty, for everyone who’s in America at present.