President Barack Obama says he hopes that the immigration reform plan crafted by a bipartisan Senate committee will become a bill as soon as March. The president also warned that this debate will become more heated and emotional as it moves ahead. Does the proposed plan qualify as amnesty for illegal immigrants? "Absolutely," said Professor Jan Ting of Temple's Beasley School of Law. "This is an unlimited amnesty, an immediate amnesty with a lifting of the numerical controls in our law, with some window dressing: more border enforcement and more pressure on employers not to hire illegal immigrants."