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.
Thanks, So, who was the fat dude? had a special bathtub built.
Today while I was talking to my boss a man came in and wanted to hire my company to transport Mexicans to job sites so that they could work constructions sites laying block for new houses built mostly by Ryan Homes. This new construction company brought ten Mexicans in to lay block and more are to follow.
The man that is bringing these Mexicans in says they will be staying in Tarrentum. I guess things are going so good in the Pittsburgh area that we need to bring in foreign laborers to do work that Pittsburgh Americans won't do.
Good post
William Howard Taft, who invented (allegedly) the seventh inning stretch because the chair was uncomfortable. IIRC
Kennedy is looking at it as future voters and a way to slam the republican party at the same time
He doesn't give a hoot about people
Silent Cal! I like him!
Recall his wit?
Someone asked him a question and said it he couldn't answer it with two or fewer words:
He answered "YOU LOSE."
William Howard Taft.
Ever wonder how those humongous guys wiped? Did they REALLY get it all???
Well, within a generation, about half of Hispanic immigrants become Protestant (about a third, and mostly Evangelical), or secular (about 10%), so there is a consolation prize for those worried about a Catholic takeover. It will take a LONG time, and we will both be dead if and when it occurs. Cheers.
"ADM can harvest more in a minute than most farmers can harvest in a month."
And fix more prices before lunch, than any farmer in a lifetime.
my bad, IIRC, It was March, they were changed later to January.
It depends if chicago is allowed to vote.
Awwww, and I will admit here, that at age 5, I stood in front of Lincoln's statue in Washington, D.C. and cried too because he had been murdered. I recall it's a HUGE statue, but I haven't been back to see it... it might not be THAT huge at all.
WOW .. you're right .. it is
You're right of course, Bush probably is wholesale murdering people. He has the military's ear, with the rifle and scope, and his military training and all....
I don't mean the Mexican-Americans who grew up here, but the guys who learn how to do it "down home" ~ we had a Mexican company bid on the sidewalk work around here (with VDOT). They did fantastic work ~ their degree of finish on sidewalks equals the best of any kind of interior work I've ever seen. I've observed the same thing in California on visits there to see inlaws.
So, what do we do? Well, the guys in India are even better! But they have to run a gauntlet at the airports to get here ~ the Mexicans have only to walk across the border to beat them out.
Seems to me we need a large wall on the border, with tight restrictions on who gets in the queue to do this kind of work, and vigorous enforcement of what employers do so they don't hire queue jumpers first.
As far as what bricklayers in Pittsburgh are doing.....? Maybe they should start practicing.
Bwwwaaaaaaahahahaha -- and today is not a good day for RWR, what with cries of 'amnesty' in the air. We'll have to hold our election at a later date!
I hope my guts are telling me the truth but after seeing thousands of people running through the streets of So. Cal. last weekend and continuing walkouts of "students" in Los Angeles I'm thinking most voters are getting real edgy with the whole bleeping immigrant issue....Even the phony "Tony Villa", the former MECHA cheerleader and current Mayorista of LA is looking nervous on TV today. He wants the city to run the school system and he can't even control the street mess he helped create last weekend....This amnesty bill will be viewed as the invitation to oblivion that it is...Bush said he does not support blanket amnesty but wants a guest worker program and border control...So get a bill that controls the border, registers guest workers and rejects complete amnesty....Republicans should not fear the reaction in the streets, it will only bolster the argument for no blanket amnesty and strict border control...NOW is the time to speak clearly and firmly on the necessity of highly controlled borders....Sen. Frist appears to know this and the next few days will be interesting....
They must have used a shoehorn too get him into the chair and I can't imagine how they got him out of the c hair.
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