[GarySpFc]

Kris W. Kobach, a professor of law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, served as counsel to the U.S. Attorney General, 2001-'03. He was the attorney general's chief adviser on immigration law.

[TomGuy]

Senate voting now on Hagel/Martinez Amendment

CSPAN 2

Mr. Martinez voted NO ---- and it is his amendment.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Bumpin' the hell outta this one.

[TomGuy]

That was apparently a cloture vote on the Hagel/Martinez amendment. It failed significantly.

Frist asks for a 10-minute vote on some other amendment. Bill #S2454. This is a procedural vote on Frist's border security bill.

[Centurion2000]

With a few exceptions, today's immigration judges (who serve for life) are dedicated to enforcing the law, and they do a difficult job well. This bill forces all immigration judges to step down after serving seven years - and restricts replacements to attorneys with at least five years' experience practicing immigration law

This is HUGE.

[KS Flyover]

bump!

[Travis McGee]

Treason Alert! Ping your lists!

[DumpsterDiver]

ping

[Interesting Times]

I just called Senator George Allen's office to make his staff aware of this article.

[Cyropaedia]

Great Job Gary! Keep it up! ;^)

[Dead Corpse]

You've gotta be friggin' kidding me....

Traitors... The lot of them...

[lentulusgracchus]

Like that surprise hidden on page 302 - which would replace the country's entire bench of experienced immigration judges with pro-immigration advocates.

Anyone figure out who put that in the bill, yet?

Personal guess: Durbin the Turban.

[HiJinx]

Poison Pill Ping!

Thanks for the heads-up, Gary. Good find, good post. Very bad provision....

[ZULU]

"It gets worse. Immigration judges are now appointed by the attorney general - whose job it is to see to it that laws are enforced."

Hahahahahahaha!!!!!!

Mr. Gonzales?????!!!

[Darnright]

What a sneaky, underhanded stunt. This is going ASAP to my representatives.

[Shuttle Shucker]

The more we crack down on illegal immigration, the less Mexicans in Mexico will cling to the Leftist frontrunner in this July's presidential elections who is suddenly in a statistical deadheat for the first time with right-leading Felipe Calderon. That Chavez-admiring Leftie had been ahead in the polls literally for years on promises of free money and threats of nationalization and such. Suddenly the immigration pressures have helped lead to a declining peso relative to the dollar, though, and voters (who know how much Mexico desperately needs the USA) are noticing growing U.S. disapproval for how Mexico's government still won't stand up to telecom monopoly magnate Carlos Slim (#3 on Forbes wealthiest list). Let's keep up the constructive pressure so that Mexicans who don't want to have to abandon Mexico can stay there (which most WANT to do anyway, to be with their families where they speak the same language and don't have to wash bathroom floors and pick pesticide-laden vegetables).

Meanwhile, don't we owe it to our American people struggling in Mexico who endure Mexico's shamelessly racist immigration restrictions to keep the pressure up and thereby empower reformers in Mexico in that way, too? Can you believe Mexico's hypocritically anti-gringo immigration laws which Rush Limbaugh now impressively and charismaticaly calls "Limbaugh's Laws" while saying we should try running the USA in a similar way to see what the reaction would be? Here they are:

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

[Gritty]

Somebody needs to hang for this abomination...

[dennisw]

stellar

[dangus]

I hope Kris Kobach runs for office again. He was rather narrowly defeated last year in a very blue district, in large part due to hostile intervention by Bush Administration for Adam Taff... the district ended up staying Democrat. He narrowly edged out Lackey Taffy* but lost 55-45 to Dennis Moore, after depleting resources on Taff, who spent $775,000 in the primary. (In comparison, Kobach only spent $1,211,000 TOTAL; Moore spent $2,362,000 and was unchallenged in the primary.)

(*Kobach ran a very more positive campaign; the derisive nickname for Taff is mine.)

[Euro-American Scum]

Sold down the river (again) by a bunch of Quisling traitors ping for future reference.

[TigersEye]

The Senate, House and White House are seriously confused about what is at issue and what is at stake here.

The issue of a guest worker program is completely separate from the issue of illegal aliens.

We have a guest worker program. It may need to be reformed but illegal aliens are those who have not applied to be guest workers. There are 11 million of them. (or more) The only thing needing reform concerning illegal aliens is to enforce the existing laws respecting their presence and their employment here. And border security.

Border security is the number one problem in this debate. The flood of illegal aliens is a major factor in relation to our lack of border security but it is only one factor. There is also a matter of national security in a time of war and in an age when terrorists have set their sights on inflicting mass destruction on our society.

After the issues of border security and millions of illegal foreign nationals on our soil the matter of guest workers is very small. Until the first two problems are thoroughly and firmly addressed the guest worker issue should not even be discussed.

The President the Senate and the House need to get that message with unambiguous resolve.

Border security! No employment for illegal aliens!

Immigration and a guest worker program are separate issues from the above.