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Senate Panel Approves Immigration Bill
AP on Yahoo ^ | 3/27/06 | David Espo - ap

Posted on 03/27/2006 4:08:50 PM PST by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee approved election-year immigration legislation Monday that clears the way for millions of undocumented workers to seek U.S. citizenship without having to first leave the country.

After days of street demonstrations that stretched from California to the gounds of the U.S. Capitol, the committee also voted to strip out proposed criminal penalties for residents found to be in this country illegally.

The panel's vote cleared the way for the full Senate to begin debate Tuesday on the emotional immigration issue.

"All Americans wanted fairness and they got it this evening," said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (news, bio, voting record), the Massachusetts Democrat who played a pivotal role in drafting the legislation, approved 12-6.

Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., voted for the bill but signaled that some of the provisions could well be changed by the full Senate.

In general, the bill is designed to strengtehn border patrol, create new opportunities for so-called guest workers and determine the legal future of the estimated 11 million immigrants living in the United States illegally.

At several critical popints, committee Democrats were united while Republicans splintered. In general, GOP Sens. Lindsay Graham of South Carolina, Sam Brownback of Kansas and Mike DeWine of Ohio, who is seeking re-election this fall, sided with Democrats.

That gave Democrats a majority that allowed them to shape the bill to their liking.


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To: swampfox98

There are so many special interest groups fighting on this issue that we will never see something practical and simple like a good fence and worker visa levels that truely address the needs. The one side wants to pretend we don't need any foreign workers. The other side wants to pretend that we don't need to guard the boarder.

Through into the mix twenty five million illegals already in the country and the millions of people that were illegals that are now citizens and the writting on the wall is clear "Learn Spanish" . There is no way the politicians wil deport twenty five million people.


1,021 posted on 03/28/2006 8:07:52 AM PST by LongViewSC
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To: HKMk23
Call Sen. Frist's office and let him know you back him up

Senator_Frist@frist.senate.gov

509 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

202) 224-3344

Or Office of Senator Bill Frist
28 White Bridge Road
Suite 211
Nashville, TN 37205
615-352-9411
615-352-9985 (fax)
1,022 posted on 03/28/2006 8:38:44 AM PST by Serenissima Venezia (U.S. a 3rd world soon: not educating enough scientists/engineers and being invaded by illegals)
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To: SmoothTalker

I can't tell you how much I agree. At this point, I am livid and considering become a hermit in the hills of West Virginia (WV seems to not have been invaded by illegals - yet).


1,023 posted on 03/28/2006 8:41:02 AM PST by Serenissima Venezia (U.S. a 3rd world soon: not educating enough scientists/engineers and being invaded by illegals)
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To: Serenissima Venezia

"I can't tell you how much I agree. At this point, I am livid and considering become a hermit in the hills of West Virginia (WV seems to not have been invaded by illegals - yet)."

Give it five years. North Carolina was mostly free of illegals a decade ago. Now they are everywhere. You can't walk outside without tripping over them.


1,024 posted on 03/28/2006 8:43:23 AM PST by SmoothTalker
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To: NormsRevenge

Oust the incumbents who voted for this piece of rubbish!!


1,025 posted on 03/28/2006 8:44:07 AM PST by Fruit of the Spirit
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To: DoughtyOne

"Kiss your nation good-bye folks. It was nice while it lasted."

If the legal citizens of this country came together to protest in the same manner as the illegals, we might have some sway. Only we wouldn't need to use hypocritical signage to make our point.

The simplest form of protest that I can think of is bumper stickers with a profound message.


1,026 posted on 03/28/2006 8:53:30 AM PST by Fruit of the Spirit
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To: Indy Pendance

The way to get rid of the ones here now is through first securing the border; second employer sanctions that have real teeth and are actively pursued; third take away the social services (WIC, Food Stamps, Medical, free preschool, free college education).
I think cracking down on those who employ illegal labor will have the biggest effect. No jobs, no illegal imigrants. Enforcement has always been the answer. Lack of enforcement (government's fault) and greedy employers (business' fault) has caused the migration we see today.
We do have laws on the books, they could start enforcing them today.
Take away the incentives to come here and it will make securing the border easier.
Just my humble opinion.


1,027 posted on 03/28/2006 9:12:47 AM PST by antceecee (...some people would complain if you hung 'em with a new rope...)
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To: NormsRevenge

Can you believe this comparison of Mexican and U.S. immigration laws?

http://www.directory.com.mx/immigration

Talk about a racist legal system...



1,028 posted on 03/28/2006 9:42:38 AM PST by Shuttle Shucker
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To: MikeWUSAF
Montana's two Senators disgust me, but that's not going to keep me home.

You're neither principled or conservative.

1,029 posted on 03/28/2006 10:04:18 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
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To: antceecee

I believe you are correct, but I don't think it will happen unless we get a president that cares about taking those actions.


1,030 posted on 03/28/2006 10:09:26 AM PST by LongViewSC
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To: b4its2late
I've emailed the RNC too and told them that if this passes, no more money flowing from me and that there will be millions of other on the right that will leave the party and take their dough with them.

I left a few years ago. Re-registered "decline to state". I don't need to wear an "R" to vote for Conservatives, and as long as the RNC is so tone-deaf, I refuse to sully my good name by associating it with them. Every time they call asking for money, I give the caller the "Not until..." litany. I've never had a single one of them disagree with me, and they haven't called, now, in several months.

1,031 posted on 03/28/2006 10:13:57 AM PST by HKMk23 (We keep you alive to serve this ship. Row well, and live.)
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To: Dont_Tread_On_Me_888
It is either conservative or it is not. This is party neutral,

Hear, Hear !!

Bttt

1,032 posted on 03/28/2006 10:24:15 AM PST by A message
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To: HKMk23

I toyed with it, but haven't made the move yet. I'm more conservative than anything, but have always been a registered pubbie. I feel kind of like Senator Zell Miller in respect to the party that I knew leaving me.


1,033 posted on 03/28/2006 10:41:39 AM PST by b4its2late (There are good terrorists.............. DEAD ONES.)
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To: Fruit of the Spirit

"Rubbish"? You never did answer why you think Holy Communion to illegal aliens should be criminalized.


1,034 posted on 03/28/2006 11:09:51 AM PST by clawrence3
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To: usnavy45

What specific part of the Senate compromise drove you and your friends out of the GOP?


1,036 posted on 03/28/2006 11:35:58 AM PST by clawrence3
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To: chris1

Yeah, but we leave the arena to the 'rats.....


1,038 posted on 03/28/2006 11:45:34 AM PST by expatpat
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To: b4its2late
I think the decision to stay or leave comes down to your moral assessment of where you are or are not willing to compromise. I can willingly compromise between ideas that are more-or-less morally equivalent, but am generally unwilling, and think it unreasonable, to make any compromise between a moral superior and a moral inferior.

There's no political equivalent to the idea of Purgatory; no reasonable foundation for a vote to "go through Hell to get to Heaven".

That's NOT saying that a vote to move in a positive direction will not have painful implications; as bad as things are, they cannot be fixed without sometimes considerable pain. Ask anyone who's been a patient in a hospital burn unit. What I AM saying is that a positive change is not reasonably achieved by voting to move in a negative direction.

In that regard, the RNC has left the rails.

As I state on my Profile page, with the RNC matching the leftward march of the DNC step-for-step, I'm not leaving them; they're leaving me. They're decreasingly reliable as purveyors of solutions because they're increasingly populated by individuals who are carriers of the very political ailments that drag us leftward. Bluntly, "Republican" is, now more than ever, tantamount to "Moderate"; the most bland and undesirable of all possible political persuasions owing to its very LACK of any actual persuasion.

FWIW: here's the biblical commentary on being a moderate:

15 'I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot.

16 'So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.

Revelation 3:15 & 16 NASB

1,039 posted on 03/28/2006 11:46:06 AM PST by HKMk23 (We keep you alive to serve this ship. Row well, and live.)
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To: usnavy45

No specifics though - just the proverbial "last straw"? I'm in California too, and I can even articulate my disagreements with the House version.


1,040 posted on 03/28/2006 11:49:12 AM PST by clawrence3
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