[Dane]

But if you can find any citizen or resident immigrant who will simply assert that you were working for them prior to August 2001, and will sponsor you, then you also are eligible.

And if any company does that for someone who didn't have the proper paperwork, they get fined.

The above italicized passage is for those you hired people with the proper paperwork, but due to INS mix ups or their own lapses, became illegal. Those are the people who are going to get sponsored.

And it will be about 200,000 people.

[janetgreen]

Those are the people who are going to get sponsored.

Are the "sponsors" going to pick up the bills for medical care, welfare, schooling for the kids, welfare, incarceration, etc.? If not, why should Americans have to pay for it?

[angkor]

And if any company does that for someone who didn't have the proper paperwork, they get fined.

You are unbelievably and irrevocably naive.