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After weeks of backroom deals and procedural maneuvering, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's rush to pass the 1,200 page Senate amnesty bill comes to a close TODAY! Our sources say they expect a final vote to end all debate on the legislation today at 11:30 a.m. If that vote passes, then a final vote on the bill is expected at 2 p.m.Call your Senators NOW and tell them to vote against S.744:Toll-Free 888-995-8349, or if circuits are busy call their direct numbers HERE. Vote NO to the motion to end debate on the bill andVote NO on final passage. The Senate already passed...

The Republican Party won't survive the passing of the Democrat's illegal immigration amnesty bill. This shouldn't be too complex for the D.C. geniuses: if you betray your party's base to pander to the opposition's base, they win, you lose. If you screw the white working class to pander to the Hispanic vote, whites will stay home. If you destroy your base's trust in government, by passing yet another 2000 page bill no one has read, Republicans will stay home. Republicans are too busy working and raising a family to waste their time voting for a bunch of cynical, lying politicians....

All, I need help. My friend thinks since the bill is "bi-partisan", then it must be good for the country. I can handle the bi-partisan part, but what I need help on is: * Where is a source that lists what the bill does to hurt US citizens, immigrants trying to be lawful and become citizens * Show where it actually steals money from taxpayers in the form of our taxes going up and redistributes * Show that it actually gives more rights to "new immigrants" than current citizens in terms of easier to hire and harder to prosecute for...

Updated: Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 9:05 AM Today may be your last chance to make a difference in the Senate amnesty fight. Three votes are scheduled for today with the final cloture vote likely to come tomorrow morning. Call your Senators NOW toll-free at 888-995-8349. Tell them to vote NO on S.744. The bill grants amnesty first with only promises of future enforcement, and, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, it increases unemployment while decreasing wages.

Sen. Marco Rubio took to the floor of the U.S. Senate Wednesday afternoon, to address concerns that have arisen from some grassroots conservatives over his support of immigration reform. “I have received numerous emails and calls from conservatives and tea party activists,” he said at the beginning of his remarks. “To hear the worry, anxiety, and growing anger in the voices of so many people who helped me get elected to the Senate, who I agree with on virtually every other issue, has been a real trial for me,” he confessed. But he said he told them that he would...

“This Gang of Eight bill delegates a lot of authority to the administration," he explained. "So, with my amendment, ‘Trust But Verify,’ we tried to get that authority back and keep it in Congress, where Congress would vote on whether the border is secure. “Ultimately, whether or not these people become citizens, under the Gang of Eight bill, is up to the president,” Paul continued. “I don’t care if it’s a Republican president or a Democratic president. That’s too much power for one person to have." "So, I would have kept that power with Congress and said Congress has to...

“I think Speaker Boehner wants comprehensive immigration reform. He wants a solution to the problem. I think he's for comprehensive immigration reform,” said Gutierrez, a long time amnesty advocate. “He's for a complete package, I believe. That's what he has said. My meeting with him last week leads me to no other conclusion but to affirm that.” Speaker Boehner told his Republican conference he would not move any immigration bill to the floor without the majority support of his party. Congressman Tim Huelskamp (R – KS) told Brietbart News on Tuesday that the Speaker would be “going back on his...

Yesterday, the current pro-amnesty immigration bill passed a Senate hurdle. 15 Republican Senators betrayed the public's trust as they voted for this piece of garbage. The final vote was 67-27 and passed by seven votes. That's right, if the Republicans had done their duty, then this bill would be dead in the water. Now it will certainly pass the Senate. Our only hope is that the House kills the bill. First, it behooves all Americans to contact their Representative and tell them to kill the bill. There is absolutely no need for the House to pass anything at all. We...

There actually is a smidgen of good news. He’s said repeatedly over the last few days that the House won’t take up the Gang of Eight bill, something we now kinda sorta know to be true. He’s not selling Rubio’s plan, he’ll be selling something that might demand real evidence of improved border security before proceeding to legalization. Although, if a bill like that was really in the offing, Boehner and Cantor wouldn’t need someone as influential as a former VP nominee to try to push it, right? The bad news? He also thinks that “earned citizenship” is no way,...

I just want to be clear about about the new front group for the Gang of Eight’s immigration proposal on the right, Americans for a Conservative Direction. The group, funded by Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, is perfectly entitled to set up this group. A good bit of the center-right coalition supports the issue. That’s not my problem My problem is that this is just another example of Republican consultants seemingly bleeding people dry for crappy work product. They call themselves Americans for a Conservative Direction, but one of their first ads is a poorly produced ad supporting Lindsey Graham, who...

A second House Republican said a move by Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) to advance an immigration bill to the House floor that doesn’t have the support of a majority of Republicans would cost him his speakership, keeping the pressure on the GOP leader from his right flank.

“I have received numerous emails and calls from conservatives and tea party activists,” he said at the beginning of his remarks. “To hear the worry, anxiety, and growing anger in the voices of so many people who helped me get elected to the Senate, who I agree with on virtually every other issue, has been a real trial for me,”

just a heads-up. they're now telling people to call in and support it, clearly targeting Rush's own "low information voter" listeners.

First a reminder to call, write and otherwise emphatically contact your Senators and House representatives and register your strong, unyielding opposition to the immigration bill. Smokeyblue did a great job on a recent post providing the exact contact information: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3035403/posts This pressure is working just like it did in 2006/2007, many Senators leaning to a yes vote or on the fence are now against. Even some Dem Senators are reportedly wavering. Opposition is solidifying and beginning to get the upper hand with Sarah Palin having taken a courageous public stand to take down this bill, standing up against the faux...

You may remember lessons when you were a child by your parent or Sunday School teacher that doing bad things leads to a life of ruin. That telling one little white lie often leads to other lies to cover up the first one, which can lead to worse things. Which brings me to my disappointment in Marco Rubio and how he came to support the very policies he attacked liberal and now Democrat Charlie Crist for supporting in 2010. By now, we all know that in 2010, Crist supported amnesty and Rubio attacked him for it. While some of us...

Get this. A provision in the Senate immigration "reform" bill has a stimulus provision for young people. Now it's not your average, run-of-the-mill Obama cash stimulus. This one would allow the kids to buy Obama-cars. The provision is a payoff -- er, accommodation to secure the vote of Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator from Vermont. Sanders, it's reported, wants to "help" younger workers who've been hurt by Obama's never-ending Great Recession. So, $1.5 billion is allocated to Americans age 16 to 24 over the next two years. The money will be handed out to states by the Department of Labor....

The immigration reform proposal backed by a bipartisan group of senators can't be compared to President Obama's healthcare reform law, said Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), one of senators that introduced the proposal argued Tuesday. "First of all, ObamaCare, you can't compare the two," Rubio said in an interview on "The Michael Medved Show."

On Monday, June 24, 2013, the U.S. Senate passed a cloture motion (which ends debate) on the Schumer-Corker-Hoeven Amendment to the Gang of Eight's horrifying illegal alien amnesty bill - mislabeled "immigration reform." The purpose of this amnesty proposal is to capture future votes for the Democratic Party. Those who do not acknowledge that blatantly obvious fact either suffer from some debilitating mental illness or are working for the other side. On rare occasions, even the Left admit the objective. **snip**Herein lies the real reason Democrats are slavering for this amnesty bill to pass and are tickling themselves pink that...

Illegal immigrants from Mexico (and surely from other Latin American countries) are flooding into the U.S. in anticipation of amnesty. We (my wife and I) know personally of several Hispanic families urgently getting friends and relatives across the border in order to take advantage of the passage of the immigration bill.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who has the most influence among conservative voters in Republican primaries, told Breitbart News on Tuesday that Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) should be primaried for their support of the Senate's immigration bill. “Conservatives are getting ready for the 2014 and 2016 primaries. We have long memories, and there will be consequences for those who break campaign promises and vote for this amnesty bill," Palin told Breitbart News. "Competition makes everyone work harder, be better, and be held accountable. This applies to politics, too. No one is ‘entitled’ to anything." She continued,...