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Apparently the Gold Card is not a rumor.

Specter's proposal seeks compromise on immigration reform WASHINGTON - The Senate's main immigration bill would enable most illegal immigrants now in the United States to remain indefinitely as long as they stay employed, but it wouldn't put them on a glide path to U.S. citizenship. The Senate Judiciary Committee will begin debating the measure Wednesday under a three-week timetable aimed at producing a final version for the full Senate by March 27. Sponsored by Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., the committee chairman, the legislation is designed to strike a middle course between a bill passed by the House of Representatives calling for tougher immigration enforcement and pro immigration advocates who call for permanent legal status - and eventual citizenship - for the estimated 11 million aliens now in the country illegally... Senate Judiciary Committee staff members who explained key provisions of Specter's bill on Monday said that the measure would create a "gold card" program for illegal immigrants who entered the United States before Jan. 4, 2004. It also would create a guest-worker program to bring in more foreign laborers.

"The Dems want the cheap votes and Rep. businessmen the cheap labor. And you and I get f***ed."

Tell me about it. My husband has been a sheet metal mechanic for over 30 years. We're nearing the age that we should be thinking of retirement, but it isn't going to happen. My husbands wages have dropped below 1999 levels. He is making $3 less an hour than back then and companies are not providing the health coverage they once did. When my husband goes to a job all he hears is Mexican music and Spanish speakers. Our jails are over flowing with the Mexican criminals, which we are paying for. Our neighborhoods are war zones because of the gangs. I've had it up to here with Republicans.

Face it. The Government has sold us all down the river and I don't care what side of the bleachers you are sitting in.