Immigration Debacle

Senate Shelves Immigration Bill
Apr 07 10:27 AM US/Eastern

The Senate sidetracked sweeping immigration legislation Friday, leaving in doubt prospects for passing a bill (prior to them all taking a two week Easter break, even though many of them push an agenda of complete and total separation of church and State... ed) offering the hope of citizenship to millions of men, women and children living in the United States illegally.

It separates illegal immigrants now in the U.S. into three categories.

Illegal immigrants here more than five years could work for six years and apply for legal permanent residency without having to leave the country. Those here two years to five years would have to go to border entry points sometime in next three years, but could immediately return as temporary workers. Those here less than two years would have to leave and wait in line for visas to return.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/04/07/D8GR7DSO6.html

Where’s the asterisk?
You know…. The one that’s there to say that this amnesty-of-sorts legislation ONLY applies to Mexican citizens who are illegal immigrants, not those who simply came through our porous southern border from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Syria, Egypt, UAE, or (god forbid!) France.
Where is that specified? Or is just some Beltway ASSumption at this point?
Are those al-Queda cell members, who have been here since they missed their assigned flight because the pilot was in jail, eligible for the same program?
Will they be discriminated against? Will the ACLU be forced to defend their new found rights?
Is there an asterisk?