Amnesty Rebuttal...

Any scheme that provides special pathways to citizenship to illegals or their children amounts to amnesty.

It is unethical - immoral - to provide the children of illegals with options not extended to the children of our own citizens.  We have been force-fed a steady stream of the argument that because the children of illegals had no say in their parents' decision, it is immoral to force the breakup of families, that we owe them their own special pathway to citizenship, free education through college, and preferential consideration in employment. 

And yet, the same people who make these arguments conveniently ignore the plight of the children of incarcerated citizens who live in single parent homes, with relatives, or in foster care because their parents engaged in illegal activities.  They also had no choice in the matter, and in many cases their parents engaged in illegal activity to try provide a better life for them (sound familiar?). No one argues the morality of breaking up these families, offers them free education through college, or preference in employment. This is just a consequence with which they must learn to live.

This is the double standard being forced on us. If it is just, albeit regrettable, that the children of our own citizens suffer as a consequence of the decisions of their parents, then it is likewise just that the children of illegals experience similar consequences.

In the end, it is our children who must live with the consequences of our decisions.