As currently written, the Gephardt amnesty would:
» Grant immediate green cards to not only the estimated 8 to 11 million illegal aliens currently residing in the U.S., but also to their spouses and minor children who may be living outside the country. In addition they would become immediately eligible for all federal and state welfare benefits available to legal immigrants.
» Give the relatives of illegal aliens admission priority over the relatives of legal immigrants.
» Accept attestations of continuous presence and/or employment in the U.S. in lieu of proof of the fact that an applicant has lived in this country long enough to be eligible for amnesty.
» Bar the INS from deporting illegal aliens who might qualify for amnesty until final regulations are written - a period which could take years.
» Qualify illegal aliens who have been deported and who subsequently returned to the U.S. Moreover, the period during which they were outside the U.S. will count towards the requirement of continuous presence.
» Designate nongovernmental organizations to process applications. This is an open invitation to fraud since both the government and the public will be barred from access to their records. Among the fraudulent recipients of the 1986 amnesty was one of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers.
» Broadly allow denials of amnesty to be challenged in federal courts, creating the potential for years of delay and unimaginable litigation costs.
http://www.steinreport.com/archives/2002_10_24.html#000842
It wouldn't be limited to those currently residing in the US, just like the 80's amnesty wasn't limited to those living in the US at that time. The minute amnesty is opened up, millions of people will come over to get in on it ....they only ask them to get someone (anyone --it can be a total stranger) to write a notarized letter saying they employed the illegal. Illegals don't have documents or at least not real ones so it's impossible for them to prove anything.