The Republican House leadership has already indicated a willingness to remove in conference committee the provision in H.R.4437 making illegal presence a felony. If that is Sen. Frist's only objection to H.R.4437, then he should say so and submit a bill in the Senate that is identical to H.R.4437, except that it provides for illegal presence to be a misdemeanor, rather than a felony. Sen. Frist, though, wants a bill to emerge from the United States Senate that provides legal status to millions of illegal aliens. H.R.4437 doesn't do that and, therefore, is not a bill that he has any interest in supporting.
Frist should introduce a Senate bill to harden the borders and supply penalties for employers and coyotes.
4437 is poison and should not be mentioned for political reasons.