Posted on 04/06/2006 8:33:43 AM PDT by STARWISE
WASHINGTON - In a last stab at compromise, Senate Republicans and Democrats reported progress Thursday toward agreement on legislation opening the way to legal status and eventual citizenship for many of the 11 million immigrants now in the U.S. illegally.
"There's been tremendous progress overnight," said Sen. Harry Reid (news, bio, voting record) of Nevada, the Democratic leader, while Majority Leader Bill Frist also expressed optimism that a long-sought compromise might be at hand.
There was no immediate reaction from President Bush, who has made immigration legislation a key priority.
The developments occurred after Frist unveiled a new bill late Wednesday night on the subject as the Senate headed into a test vote on the most sweeping immigration bill in two decades.
In general, the legislation would provide for enhanced border security, regulate the flow of future immigrants into the United States and settle the legal fate of the estimated 11 million men, women and children already in the country.
It was the fate of the illegal immigrant population that proved hardest to legislate, and it has left the Senate on the verge of gridlock for days.
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Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., as well as other key senators met before the vote to review terms of a proposed compromise.
In general, it would require illegal immigrants who have been in the United States between two years and five years to return to their home country briefly, then re-enter as temporary workers. They could then begin a process of seeking citizenship.
Illegal immigrants here longer than five years would not be required to return home; those in the country less than two years would be required to leave without assurances of returning, and take their place in line with others seeking entry papers.
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Why does anyone argue with this 'Jorge'.(hereafter referred to as 'it') Ignore it and maybe it will go away. Back to Mexico. Inspect plane parts for thirty pesos an hour. Or, whatever, Who cares what it does. Or what the geniuses GPA is. I work in that hospital and illegals cost us dearly. Not like Americans jaywalking. Or any of its other stupid arguments. I live in a town that is more and more gang ridden. Bilingual required. Later, troll.
If I didn't know better I would think this was a parody of anti-immigrant hysteria...ACTUALLY posted to make the case for helping illegals.
Do you realize how nuts and hatefilled your post sounds?
I'll pray for you.
"welfarasslavery" ACTUALLY posted this nonsense to me, while telling me to "ignore" me.
This is too funny.
I love it!
Do you bicker with the police officer who pulls you over when you've run a red light, because your personal view is that there shouldn't be signals? Perhaps your personal view is there should be no police officers. Do you think that will get you far in your bickering/compromise with law enforcement? How about the judge who sentences someone found convicted of breaking an existing law....does the defendant's personal view that the law is wrong, or demands for compromise, change the fact that the law exists and is there for the exact reason the defendant was arrested?
Making news laws that won't be enforced is ridiculous. So is this charade, No Illegal Left Behind Act, that's going on in the Senate.
I bet you ANYTHING the overwhelming majority of uninsured patients at hospitals are Americans.
Guess you think we should kick them all out?
Hey, you kill people, you live with the result.
I've never seen Mexico. You sir are a total ignoramus.
Maybe we could slap a "stop payment" on Bush Jr.'s giveaways to Africa and other turdworlds - that's enough to pay for a gold-plated wall. It could be solid gold, except for his trillion-dollar "free" pill giveaway vote-buying scam.
You can "bet" all you want. You would be wrong.
Killer.
Traitor.
People in the southeast and northeast rarely have a clue. Not that they have to...yet.
He expanded Ike's minefield. He certainly wouldn't agree with you the rest of the pro-criminal, anti-sovereignty crowd.
This country has lost control of its borders. And no country can sustain that kind of position
- Ronald Reagan, 1983.
Actually I couldn't hurt a flea.
You on the other hand are nothing but another Hitler, Stalin, Osama Bin Ladin and EVERYBODY KNOWS you KILL innocent Americans EVERYDAY.
Spare us your ideologically diseased posts. Turn yourself in for your own good!
Just stating facts and taking pride in ones work. I.e. calling a spade a spade. God bless him! :)
ROFL! Rant all you want. I couldn't make you look anymore pathetic if I tried.
The hard right can thank themselves for this piece of garbage. They made the border so radioactive that the politicians punted. Every proposal was "amnesty" so that is just what they gave them. I told everyone this was going to happen if you can't even discuss an issue as big as this.
Blame Bush or whoever,but you only have yourselves to blame! When you start trashing Farmers and small businesses you lose contact with what is right. You were trashing the very core of America.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Here's an idea:
Shut the borders. NOW.
Mine fields? Why not! Make it a three-level wall: 1st level, barbed wire & signs. 2nd level, vehicle traps & mines, 3rd level, a 60-foot-high wall of 4-foot thick concrete with razor wire & machine gun emplacements atop it.
If you are illegal, you will be forced to leave. If you don't, you will be shot on sight.
If you fly any flag other than the Stars & Stripes, instant exectution, by mob if no officer of the law is available.
I'm disgusted with these foreign invaders, and it's time we lauched a WAR.
We NEED to find a new party, and we need to fund it, and we need to get American Patriots elected to Congress and the Presidency from that party. We also need to get the word out to our friends and neighbors that the threat is as real and as dangerous as if a nuke were pointed at our heads like they were back in the bad ol' days of the Cold War.
Some may call me a hater, a racist, or a loon. Nope...just a person who is as mad as Hell and will not allow his country to be destroyed.
It's time REAL Americans took back their land!
- Ronald Reagan, 1983.
Of course Reagan never put mines on the US/Mexico border in 1983 or 1986, so odds are in my favor that he likely wouldn't have done it in 2006.
You can quote him all you like, doesn't change the fact you're looney-bird psycho.
LOL, so what.
Talk is cheap.
Ronald Reagan was a good president. However, two years after your above worshiped Reagan quote he gave us citizenship amnesty.
To praise Reagan on illegal immigration and at the same time criticize Bush on illegal immigration is nothing more than Democrat propaganda targeting dumbed-down conservatism.
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