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Hey Freepers, think here. The last thing you should want to be brought up is an immigration bill. The only ones out there all allow illegals to eventually get U.S. citizenship. Bush's after 3 years, McCain's makes it easy to get U.S. citizenship, as does Cornyn and Kyle's version. The last thing we need is any of these routes to citizenship for illegals, and that's all that's being touted at the moment in the Senate. What we want is current laws enforced, businessmen who hire illegals fined or otherwise punished, no more anchor babies, our borders either fenced off or better patrolled, and illegals actually rounded up and sent back to wherever they came from. None of the current bills or ideas for bills would do this; just establish various types of guest worker programs w/eventual U.S. citizenship attached.

Frist knows that if he brings up Bush's version, it will not pass. Neither will the other versions out there. So he is stalling. Also, he doesn't want such a controversial topic for discussion brought up close to the 2006 mid-term elections, which is probably a politically good idea, as it's a topic that can create a lot of voting enemies, on both sides of the issue. So don't knock Frist. He is doing what is politically practical here, and frankly, if all they have to offer is Bush's plan that stinks, as do the other versions by the likes of McCain, etc., then the last thing I want to see is this subject brought up.

That makes pretty good sense and a refreshing reality check. Can it be forestalled any longer though than '08?

What if Frist, if forced to take adopt a position, were to come out and say exactly what you did, no new laws, enforce existing ones? Am I only dreaming? Sounds like a winner to me.

It may be true that he's stalling so as to kill Bush's plan, but according to the quotes and the implications of the above article, they are still planning on doing something along the lines of a guest worker program, which is still an amnesty. Why don't they understand what most conservatives and many liberals want: credible border security? If that was what he was waiting to add to the legislative docket, he'd have made that clear.

I just don't understand why there is such a huge disconnect between GOP leadership and pretty much the rest of the universe. Do they not understand that shutting down the Mexican invasion will make them the majority party for the next ten years?

Bottom line: no border security, no reelection in '06.

Good posts and I agree with both of them. Anything these pols bring up in the way of immigration "reform" is sure to be a loser.

Enforce the laws on the books, dammit, and dump garbage laws like "Special Order 40" which protect illegals. That's the ticket.