This is one of the biggest reasons IMO to come down hard on illegal immigration....granting amnesty to people who broke our laws to come here is a great big smack in the face to people who showed respect and came here the right way like your stepmother....I don't blame her for being bitter in the least...
And don't forget that when they get that amnesty, they will not have a record of the multiple federal crimes they committed: entry without inspection, document falsification, identity theft (in many cases, using someone else's social security number), tax evasion, in many cases gun possession, etc. And those are just the
federal laws. There's another laundry list of
state laws that they broke.
If you or I were to have even ONE of these hung on us, you could kiss your vote goodbye, entry into the military, government jobs and more. But I have heard of amnestied illegals (from '86) who were in the military and even met government employees who were amnestied.
Amnesty? Amnesty is immoral, and the equivalent of the government telling citizens that foreign criminals have more rights.