[peyton randolph]

No Amnesty. Not now. Not ever. Build the wall/fence. Secure our borders.

Only then can we discuss guest workers drawn from those who have stood in line legally to get here.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

This immigrant competition has hit black Americans especially hard.

Blacks are losers.

Both parties are pandering for hispanics....BIG TIME!

[goldstategop]

Expecting principle from politicians is expecting too much. We were bought off by their promise of enforcement twenty years ago. As the old saying as it, fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. The American people shouldn't be fooled again. The U.S Senate has no intention of ever enforcing our immigration laws, let alone partially removing the millions of illegal aliens already here. As the politicians play their games, our country is circling down the drain.

(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.")

[GarySpFc]

This is one time when my heart really goes out for the blacks.

[catholicfreeper]

The problem is the other side is not going to agree to talk about it later. Sen Reid and Pelosi are not going to buy a deal well the Conservative Republican gets all they want if we promise to consider it next year. Who would buy that. Especially since that have a chance to get control of the House. We wouldnt if it was reversed. If people want border security and solutions to all this there better be a plan b or there will be no bill. Which means the problem will get worse. That means that the whole guest worker/citzenship thing has to be discussed and some agreement needs to be made.

[layman]

the federal government simply stopped enforcing the 1986 law some time around, say, 1987

And any law they might pass in 2006 or 2007 would cease being enforced the following year as well. It's frustrating and disgusting. Maybe the only solution to the open borders is for the states to move to protect their borders, and if the Federal government objects let them stand up, be counted, and voted out of office.

[AmericanChef]

Both parties are prostituting themselves over this issue like no other, and it's really, really obvious ONLY because it's an issue on the front burner. We have to keep it on the front burner!!

[stopem]

"In other words, the Senate will act on the following logic: In order to have fewer immigrants, we must admit more of them. In order to halt illegal immigration, we must legalize it. And in order to enforce the law, we must reward those who have broken it...

And stick American taxpayers with the bills to support the legal/illegals.

[CowboyJay]

You still believe there's a 'labor shortage' in this country?

[Mogollon]

The senate republicans can pander to the illegals all they want...the illegals will vote democRAT in states where they can vote. Fortunately, they can't vote in Arizona now because of Prop 200 which requires that all voters show a valid ID that proves citizenship.

[Mike Darancette]

This immigrant competition has hit black Americans especially hard.

Well duh!. Seems like the RATS are getting ready to desert Blacks in favor of Hispanics. There are more Hispanics, their numbers are growing faster since there are fewer abortions and anyway the Blacks will not desert the RATS no matter how bad the RAT policies are bad for Blacks.

[Lancey Howard]

....the lawmakers considered allowing illegal immigrants who have been in the country more than five years or other connections to the United States to remain legally and eventually seek citizenship.

The longer an illegal has been a criminal, the more priority he/she gets.
Now there's logic for you.

[HiJinx]

Didn't I Ping This Already? Ping!

[3AngelaD]

The Senate, and in particular Specter, Kennedy and McCain, are playing "bait and switch." A majority of people in this country are fed up and have been demanding the government do something to get the border back under control. What the Senate is saying, at this point, is "while we're getting the border under control, we'll enact comprehensive immigration control," wink, wink, nudge nudge, that means allowing in an extra 35 million or so, legally over the next 10 years whether or not the border control provisions work, which they won't. What the Senate should do, if Frist and his allies had any guts, is pass a border security bill like the House did and face down the traitors like Kennedy and all the whiners carrying around Mexican flags. The argument that they can't do anything to secure the borders without a huge amnesty and guest worker program stinks to high heaven. But they're not ashamed to make it. And now John Kerry is speaking in the Senate on C-span, as if my day wasn't bad enough already.