Attempts to create an amnesty-with-penalty program may have failed in Washington last year, but the government has been offering a belated pardon to immigrants who tried to qualify for a program two decades ago and were either unfairly turned away or never received an answer. http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/national/34561344.html
It was a bad program, a bad idea, and created the mess we have today to a fair degree, IMO - but - if the mistake was ours, and not theirs, I'm OK with letting that small group get their amnesty.
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