[AuntB]

Last night Jim Sensenbrenner, when asked why the Senate and White House would not consider the provisions for immigration...which the House passed in HB10 by 68%, said:

"Because they were unilling to stand up to the illegal alien lobby."

Those big money donors for MALDEF (Soros, Ford Foundation, AARP, etc), can be found at:
http://ccir.net/REFERENCE/MALDEF-2002-2003.html

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Once more, the "august body" fails us all. Caligula had the right idea: appoint his favorite farm animals to the senate.

[risk]

"Because they were unwilling to stand up to the illegal alien lobby." --Sensenbrenner

Including many we would hope would do something about it: the RNC, our governors, our congress, our senate, our president, and many here on FR.

The country is burning down, and Nero fiddles.

Note: every other day of the year, the MSM wants you to forget about 9/11. But the one time a few brave members of Congress want to get immigration reform into a bill related to protecting Americans, the MSM can't stop reminding us.

[untrained skeptic]

I agree that the Senate has let us down on the issue of securing our borders in this bill.

I read over the bill, and it's woefully inadequate in the section on driver's licenses. It says that all DLs must conform to the minimum requirements in the bill, and then goes on to say that federal government can't place any real requirement on to whom the DLs are issued.

Is the President bowing the the illegal immigrant lobby? Or is he simply trying to get a law passed that addresses a lot of important issues, but falls way short on others and address those other issues in other legislation?

I would have liked to see the law prohibit illegal aliens from getting DLs. At least this version does provide for UAVs to be used for border surveillance, which should significantly help with border security.

Is it more important to get this bill passed and start implementing it, or is it more important to hold up this high profile bill to pressure those in the Senate to include better restrictions on illegal immigrants?

I simply don't have enough information to answer that.