For those lawyers in the Chamber. probably the best known legal reference book is Blacks Law Dictionary. Open it. Turn to "amnesty." It is very straightforward. Amnesty is "a pardon extended by the government to a group or class of persons." Blacks Law Dictionary cites as its first example of what that means the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act. It points to that very act and says it "provided amnesty for undocumented aliens already present in the country." That is the example it cites in the very definition of the concept of amnesty. I ask unanimous consent to print this definition with the example in the RECORD.
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