Posted on 04/18/2006 2:56:35 PM PDT by rellimpank
The Senate immigration “compromise” won’t do.
When the U.S. Senate returns later this month from spring recess, it will get a second chance to pass meaningful immigration reform. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R., Pa.) has promised to hold new hearings and report out a revised bill by May 4. The committee's starting point will be the so-called Hagel-Martinez "compromise" bill that failed to pass the Senate earlier this month.
That bill, however, is fatally flawed, and I would like to point out several reasons why the committee should either rewrite it substantially or start from a clean slate. Among the problems with the compromise proposal:
Cost: The Congressional Budget Office estimates the bill will increase the deficit by $29 billion in just five years and more than that in the years to come.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
"The Senate immigration “compromise” won’t do."
Try to please everybody and all you will accomplish is pleasing nobody.
He's too polite.
He should put forth his own bill, the one he advocated with Nelson.
The Hagel bill is not a "compromise" but will be touted so by many Senate REpubs, all dems and Bush. It is a sell out to the American middle and lower classes. It's scope is awing. Like the "essential worker" provision. Essential for whom? Essential is defined by the cheap labor industry.
The feds have to pass an enforcement-only bill and prove to me that they'll actually implement it. After the debacle of post-1986 enforcement, I won't believe anything they say; they'll have to show me.
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