Posted on 02/25/2014 5:06:24 AM PST by SoConPubbie
Cochran voted against an amendment to strip amnesty provisions from a 2006 bill, as well as against several amendments to strengthen border enforcement.
In 2006, an immigration bill offered by Sen. Arlen Specter, then a Republican, included amnesty for certain types of illegal immigrants. Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) offered an amendment to remove the amnesty language from the bill.
The Vitter amendment would remove provisions authorizing the earned legalization and agricultural worker amnesty schemes that would grant amnesty to an estimated 16 million illegal aliens and their families, Numbers USA, an anti-amnesty grassroots group, wrote about that amendment.
The Vitter amendment failed 66-33with Cochran voting against itand the Specter bill containing amnesty went on to pass the U.S. Senate. A majority of Republicans57 percentvoted for Vitter's amendment. Cochran voted against the full Specter bill.
That same year, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) offered an amendment to another bill that would have strengthened requirements regarding a forthcoming border fence that had still not been built at that point. This was an amendment to add 370 miles of fence on the Southwest border paid for by $1.8 billion in offsets from other programs, Numbers USA wrote about that Sessions amendment. A fence is one of the most effective tools for preventing illegal migration.
Cochran also voted against that amendment, which split Republicans 27-27 and lost in the Senate 29-71.
In 2009, Cochran opposed an amendment from Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations bill that Numbers USA wrote would have required that the 700 miles of border fencing (which was previously approved and appropriated for) be completed.
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BTTT!
State Senator Chris McDaniel will speak to the DeSoto County Republican Club this evening at the Southaven City Hall at 6:30 pm. Mrs. Duffee and I will be there.
I have THAD ENOUGH of that progressive criminal cochran.
I’ve now come to despise Wicker for his support of Cochran!
Thanks for the info duffee. Wife has to work tonight and we are in south Jackson Co. That's a little far.
Wicker is the main reason I hope Cochran loses.
Wicker went on local radio a week after the bill passed and said he still wanted to bring them out of the shadows.
Five hundred [calls] yesterday, and right now, theyre just ringing non-stop, said an upset staffer at the office of Mississippi Republican Sen. Roger Wicker, who has voted on both sides of the dispute.
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