Posted on 06/13/2007 9:55:28 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
Senior GOP senators are embracing an eleventh-hour plan to pass an emergency supplemental bill for more border security money as a strategy to win over Republicans who have balked at the bipartisan immigration bill languishing in the Senate.
But even as the emergency-spending approach gained momentum yesterday during President Bush’s rare visit to the Senate, the immigration bill’s strongest supporters warned that time is running out for an agreement to bring the measure back to the floor...
Senate GOP Conference Chairman Jon Kyl (Ariz.), along with Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott (R-Miss.), said they supported the idea of pushing ahead with an emergency supplemental...
At a minimum, aides said, the Republicans are seeking full funding for the border-security barriers and employer verification system authorized by this year’s immigration bill; the border fence approved by last year’s GOP-controlled Congress; and the thousands of new Border Patrol and customs enforcement agents authorized in 2004 but not yet paid for...
Bipartisan negotiations over the measure continued through yesterday, and aides and senators said they were nearing a dozen amendments to present to Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in the hopes he would schedule floor time before the July 4 recess. Kyl, an influential emissary between conservatives and immigration negotiators, met late yesterday with a core group of allies to discuss a list of about a dozen desired amendments that Republicans could present to Reid.
The list, one Republican aide said, would cover “senators who needed to be heard and policy changes that appeal to our folks.” Yet it remains unclear whether votes on those dozen changes would secure enough Republican votes to overcome continued objections from a few stalwart opponents of the bill...
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Why not just pass the border security bill and forget about the comprehensive amnesty bill?
The contempt for our intelligence is remarkable!
Read the Roll Call alert.
The bill is back !
It's starting to sink in. Enforcement of current laws, enforcement at the border first.
They are so used to the way they do biz in D.C. that they think they can throw a little pork at the American public to make the amnesty go down. Disgusting that it is OUR money to start with!
I called McConnell’s office and told them this exact thing and....what part of NO don’t they understand?
The whole bunch of them disgust!
Forget the money, send the senators to the border with shotguns, and tell them to seal it!
They did pass the immigration bill. October 26, 2006.
Can anybody be more obvious about tossing a bone? I don't like being pandered to.
“The whole bunch of them disgust!”
That they do!
hehe I forgot the me
Lott phone was busy all my lunch hour. Finally got his machine and left a little mean message for him.
I am thinking of going to Sams and buying an industrial size case of toilet paper to ship to him, with an note, “Something to clean up with as you send our country down the drain”.
Of what use is “more security money” to an administration that refuses to spend what it already has to protect the border, and instead, sends border agents to prison?? “Hello? Hello? Anyone home, McFly?”
America will have a futiure when the disgust reaches a point that we remove the whole stinking bunch and replace them with ordinary folks and not down on their luck lawyers and rich peckerheads witn royalty complex’s
“America will have a futiure when the disgust reaches a point that we remove the whole stinking bunch and replace them with ordinary folks and not down on their luck lawyers and rich peckerheads witn royalty complex’s”
We need a MAJOR house sweeping!!
I know I'm dreaming but we all need something to believe in. I suppose what I believe in is a folly, but I once believed senators cared about the nation and the nation's citizens. No longer do I believe this. Instead, I know senators work for foreign governments and invading armies. Our senators need white flags to wave. I'm thinking of sending my two their own little white flags.
Off the phone with Sen Norm Coleman’s DC office assistant.
He said they were VERY busy fielding calls against the Amnesty bill, and that the Senator is dead set against it, having voted against cloture twice last week and will oppose it if it comes back to life.
This is amazing. whew
Have you read the Roll Call article.
GOP leaders are bringing the Bill back with new threats for opposing senators !
Call or Fax Mitch McConnell and tell him what you think .
Patriotism? You think any of them put their country before their own political power? Maybe a few of them would, if it were expedient.
The elected members of the Socialist Party and their RINO allies have shown repeatedly they will sell out their country in the pursuit of personal power.
Could you provide a link?
Is there some reason they can’t use the funds and build the fence?
You know, that Bill written by Hunter and signed into LAW by Bush last year.
As stated by Robert Novak,
"President Bush did himself no favors last week by denouncing those opposed to the immigration bill as uninterested in the nation's well-being. On its own, the decision to combine border security with naturalization of illegal immigrants has always been the President's way of holding a national priority (security) hostage to a policy (legalization) that he views as desirable. "
I Like Ike.
Take the Pledge: "I pledge to never, ever vote for anyone, for any office, who votes in favor of the Mexican Invasion Surrender Bill."
Congress passed and George Bush signed the Border Fence Bill last year, which allocated $1.2 billion to Chertoff and his DHS to get started on the first 700 miles. By all reports little if any progress has been made to date, and Chertoff was recently quoted as saying "Ask your Congressman" when questioned about that lack of progress.
In 2005 George Bush requested and was given funds for 2,000 new Border Patrol officers per year for 5 years beginning in Jan 2006. In February 2006, the Bush budget included funding for only 216 new BP officers.
In May 2006, George Bush was provided with $1.98 billion emergency funding for border security, including funding for 1,000 new BP agents. Bush also requested funding for a total of 6,000 new officers by the end of calendar 2008. That funding was again approved.
To date DHS has been able to hire 1,800 new recruits.
The money for border security has repeatedly been authorized since 2005, but only marginal to extremely poor results have been forthcoming.
Specifically with Congress I’ve been calling it for thirty-five years “Flush The Congressional Bowl”. Sufficiently so that we can replace the “Bowl” with something without a “Pull chain”. The inbred clique of the Political Class has to be dispersed.
“To date DHS has been able to hire 1,800 new recruits.”
“Get a job, go to jail”
Nice job : )
“Specifically with Congress I’ve been calling it for thirty-five years “Flush The Congressional Bowl”. “
Good idea!!
In at least two border security summary announcements released by the White House, there have been extraneous and irrelevant cautionary comments which demonstrate a real resistance to necessary security measures. To wit:
Office of the Press Secretary
October 18, 2005
Fact Sheet: President Bush Signs Homeland Security Appropriations Act
[snip]
Because Enforcement Alone Will Not Work, The President Has Proposed Comprehensive Immigration Reform. If an employer has a job that no American will take, we need a way to fill that demand by matching willing employers with willing workers from a foreign country on a temporary and legal basis. The best way to fill that demand is with a temporary worker program that gives the workers we need a legal and honest way to come into our country - and return home.
Office of the Press Secretary
May 18, 2006
Fact Sheet: President Requests Funds to Strengthen Border Security
* The United States Is Not Going To Militarize The Southern Border. Mexico is our neighbor and friend. We will continue to work cooperatively to improve security on both sides of the border, confront common problems like drug trafficking and crime, and reduce illegal immigration.
* All Elements Of This Problem Must Be Addressed Together - Or None Of Them Will Be Solved At All. The House has passed an immigration bill. The Senate should act by the end of this month - so that the House and Senate can work out their differences and send the President a comprehensive bill to sign.
* America Needs To Conduct This Debate In A Reasoned And Respectful Tone. Feelings run deep on the matter of immigration - and as we work out this issue, all of us need to keep some things in mind. We cannot build a unified country by inciting people to anger, or playing on anyone's fears, or exploiting the issue of immigration for political gain. We must always remember that real lives will be affected by our debates and decisions, and that every human being has dignity and value no matter what their citizenship papers say.
Actually, the Roll Call article was posted just a dozen posts ahead of this one .
AMEN.
Now all we need to do is find a way to do this without the gobs and gobs of money neccessary to bribe the MSM.
I too noticed the weasel wording in the 06 bill....was there any mention of the fence in that one?
I have been asking myself what in the world the politicians have been imbibing, smoking, inhaling, etc. that they can't see what a betrayal of America this bill is and how irate people are to see the give-away of our country. I've come to the conclusion that Michael Savage is right: "Liberalism is a mental disease" and it's obvious it's become highly contagious. Between liberalism and their own self-importantance and greed for power, the politicos have turned a blind eye on "OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE" and I don't think the definition of 'people' in this context meant illegal alien invaders (with the support of their government) ruining our country.
I think the politicians will feel the true meaning of the old "hell hath no fury like a woman citizen/voter/constituent scorned" (and stabbed in the back) saying if this bill passes in ANY form.
Oh heck major eathquake in Guatemala, here comes another flood of illegals...
Yes, I am SO OVER that unwritten rule that says if you have an earthquake or a war or a flood or another other disaster in your natal hell hole, you get a free pass to come to our country and get in line for the benefits that American taxpayers pay for.
Campaign contributions for sure, PAC money probably, outright Cayman Islands bribes maybe.
The DC-based national trade associations (aka K Street Lobbyists) are behind this in a big way.
An Amnesty promoter like The American Meat Institute (meatpacking industry trade association) looks innocuous, but its members represent 70 percent of the American meat processing industry.
One like the Council Of Fast Food Restaurants seems silly, but it represents most of the big fast food franchisers and owners and employs nearly 3 million people (hmmmm.... illegal aliens?)
The U.S. Chamber Of Commerce is a supporter of Amnesty, as is The American Immigration Lawyers Assoc. (the Chamber wants illegals as peasant labor, the lawyers want them as uneducated and illiterate clients).
Those are merely examples. The list of business supporters is long and relentless and wealthy.
But our elected representatives should remember that trade associationss do not and cannot not vote.
bump
“Worth repeating so all can see!!
“If border security was really important to them they would have passed an emergency bill on 9/12/01,not six years later. These shameless cowards better pray that the terrorists don’t sneak across our border and kill thousands of Americans. What kind of people would put cheap labor above the safety of the American people? Scumbag politicians would.”
Yes, they could have secured the border, and the airports, within a month of 9/11 if there had been a will. There would have been plenty of money available for it, and there would have been little or no political resistence, and anyone who protested would have been shouted down. They didn’t want to, but they did manage to make airline travel an unbearable hassle. Despite all the lip service that has been paid to “homeland security,” until the border is secured, I won’t believe them.
“Because Enforcement Alone Will Not Work....”
this seems to be a mantra of sorts....I want to know WHY enforcement won’t work?!!Breaks up too much of the illegal drug traffic?!!!
Well DC catches hell for it,but you must remember those creating the problems do come from all over the country. DC is just their meeting place. These are the trash that the electorate sends .
This week, we will vote on cloture and final passage of a comprehensive bill that will strengthen border security, bring the 12 million undocumented Americans out of the shadows, and keep our economy strong. In the days ahead, we will work to improve the bill to protect and strengthen family ties while improving the structure of the temporary-worker program.
Lucy-Charlie Brown-football.
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