[NormsRevenge]

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., left, and Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. confer as the Senate Judiciary Committee considers immigration legislation during a mark-up hearing on Capitol Hill Monday, March 27, 2006. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)

[NormsRevenge]

Specter and Leahy,, The brain trust of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Our nation's fate may well be in these fellas hands.


Not a comforting thought, eh?

[stopem]

PASS HR 4437 PERIOD END OF STORY!!

[Daytyn71]

George W had an incredible opportunity right after September 11th to mobilize our national guard troops on the Border to stop the influx of illegals (and terrorists) in the name of Homeland Security. There would have been little debate or outcry by the Left in the days after September 11th had he done what should have rightfully been done to protect Americans. What a wasted opportunity!!

I'm doubtful that this Bill or any meaningful immigration legislation will be hammered out during the remainder of his presidency.

[Travis McGee]

QUISLING: a synonym for traitor, someone who collaborates with the invaders of his country.

[Euro-American Scum]

Senate grapples with illegal immigration

Senate caves to illegal immigration is more like it.

[LS]

I just e-mailed AND wrote both OH Senators to oppose the senate bills and favor the Sensenbrenner bill. Got the standard boiler plate from DeWine, but it DOES indicate that he is answering mail on this and shows how serious they are feeling the heat.

[antceecee]

Tweedledum & Tweedledee....

[joesnuffy]

Overhauling the nation's immigration laws "is not going to be easy," Bush said at the naturalization ceremony at Constitution Hall two blocks from the White House.

Is that a threat or a promise Mr. President?

[joesnuffy]

Overhauling the nation's immigration laws "is not going to be easy," Bush said at the naturalization ceremony at Constitution Hall two blocks from the White House.

Is that a threat or a promise Mr. President?

[Pessimist]

"We will not accept enforcement-only approaches,"

Illegals get to choose what they will or will not accept?

Gee, that's a great premise to start from, huh?

[goldstategop]

In other words, business as usual. Various groups in our country can still flout our immigration laws. The Senate's idea of national sovereignty is a joke upon the American people.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[frogjerk]

"No one should claim that immigrants are a burden on our economy because the work and enterprise of immigrants helps sustain our economy,"

Visit any local hospital to find illegal immigrants using the emergency room as their own doctor's office. Illegal immigration is killing the health care industry for all of us.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

Gutless, spineless, ani-American congresscritters, are stabbing us all in the back.

Blood is squirting from my eyes, and I need some duct tape to keep my head from exploding.

[MaDeuce]

The panel adopted an amendment by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., that would protect humanitarian organizations from prosecution for providing more than simple emergency aid to such immigrants. "Charitable organizations, like individuals, should be able to provide humanitarian assistance to immigrants without fearing prosecution," Durbin said.

Yes, thats right ... come on in Manuel, Mohamhead, Abdula ... make yourselves right at home. Rest up, get a good meal and a good nights sleep before your big day of terrorist attacks against American schools, malls, businesses. /sarc/

You know what ... It will take an attack on something like a school where, lets say, 500 or 600 kids are killed by terrorists who CAME IN ACROSS THE BOARDER with the help of MS13 or some such gang. I think at that point (hopfully) we'll see a few million Americans marching in the streets callings for the heads of the illegals as well as the heads of the politicians.

[satchmodog9]

You know they are just going to jam it in our collective asses again.

[b4its2late]

I don't understand what there is to grapple with. If they are here illegally, send them home.

[End Times Sentinel]

Me, I was against granting Amnesty, until this weekend, several things caused me to rethink my position, and I'm hoping other FReepers will reconsider theirs:

• The massive protests in Los Angeles and other places.  All the folks in the street with their demands and the "I'm not going home so you can just forget about it" signs frightened the hell out of me.  Also, the mexican, nicaraguan, and honduran flags.  These people mean business, and I for one, have decided my country isn't worth standing up for.  So let them stay.
• A person on television from La Raza informed me that I was a racist for wanting to enforce the immigration laws of this country.  Now, I'm not really sure if this is true or not, but the charge itself is one of such gravity, that I'm willing to accept it on it's face, and the last thing I want people to think is that I'm a racist or something, so capitulation seems the best strategy.
• I heard that diversity is our greatest strength, in fact, I read that on a poster held by a highschool student with blue hair.  I can only assume this came from a well informed and unbiased educator, so without referencing what's occurred in the Balkans, Africa, etc., it sounds quite convincing.
• A union leader said a "Guest Worker" program would be good for America.  How could I argue with that?  It's not like this guy is looking to swell the dwindling ranks of unions with unskilled, dues paying, proxy voters to increase his own political capital and economic power.
• I'm convinced that these people are doing the jobs that Americans simply won't do, like picking lettuce (for $2 an hour).  And I don't want to pay $3 for a $1 head of lettuce.  Don't wrestle with the math of that statement, trying to factor in how paying someone a living wage would somehow make the price of produce increase threefold, just believe it.
• These people give our country so much and should be rewarded somehow.  Things like Whooping Cough, overcrowded - make that cozy- schools, rich and abundant jails.  They keep our welfare and social workers gainfully employed.  They give lots of business to our auto body workers and repo men.  And they contribute to the Money Transfer industry in ways no American ever could.

Please rethink your xenophobic views, Fellow FReepers!

Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

[spintreebob]

"humanitarian groups or individuals who help illegal immigrants with more than emergency assistance."

Is it "humanitarian" to give a dude a job?

The worst possible "solution" is a complicated solution that lacks honesty and guts and has a zillion loopholes open to dispute and interpretation and that keep the lawyers in money for decades.

Everybody loses but the lawyers and bureaucrats.

[VU4G10]

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