A June 29 CNSNews.com article by Penny Starr carries the headline “‘Thou Shalt Not Steal’: Durbin Concedes 10 Commandments is Perfect Law–In Push for Amnesty.” But Starr does not quote Durbin using the word “amnesty” — in fact, that word appears nowhere in Starr’s article.
What Durbin is discussing is the DREAM act, which, in Starr’s words, “would allow an illegal alien to gain legal status if he came to the United States with his parents at age 15 or younger; if he has been in America for at least five years prior to the bill’s enactment; and if he meets certain education or military service requirements.” Because the DREAM Act imposes certain conditions on acquiring citizenship through it — and it imposes further conditions that Starr did not identify — it cannot by definition be “amnesty,” as we’ve documented, and CNS is perpetuating a falsehood by doing so.