[arthurus]

Sponsors will be irrelevant with Amnesty. It would be logistically impossible to bring in more than will flood across the borders anyway.

[Gaffer]

That depends on what kind of “provenance” Obama tries to give them when their sponsors are legitimized. They might just find that they have a leg up on the paperwork to entitlement with an anchor relative. It’s been that way here traditionally.

[arthurus]

Yes. That makes a difference to them but not to the nation. Take a step back so you can see that there is a forest there and the characteristics of an individual tree don't matter a hell of a lot.