Senate Breaks Deadlock On Immigration

cbs4denver.com ^ | May 11, 2006

[vikingd00d]

BOHICA

[Preachin']

"Key to the agreement is who will be negotiating a compromise with the House and its tough enforcement-only bill."

I hope the House doesn't back down.

[Semper Paratus]

I yearn for the days of 'Gridlock'.

[rhombus]

I hope the House doesn't back down.

Agreed. Opening the bill to amendments provides a glimmer of hope.

[The South Texan]

Translation: The GOP has just dropped it's pants and allowed the Rats that MSM to win the day.

This is why the GOP is affectionately known as the "Stupid Party" by those of us in the know.

[gubamyster]

ping

[Spiff]

Hey Frist, what the HELL is wrong with the REPUBLICAN House Bill. Why do you feel the need to inject Kennedy's crap into a good bill? Which side are you on!!!?

[jazusamo]

I hope the House doesn't back down.

Me too, the toughness of the original version is encouraging.

[JohnnyZ]

I yearn for the days of 'Gridlock'.

Because our current immigration system is working so well.

[NapkinUser]

Here it comes!

[newcthem]

I hope these @ssholes plan on having a lot of Mexicans vote for them, because I doubt if many Americans plan to............

[randog]

...The multi-city boycott – called a "Day Without Immigrants" – was organized by immigrant activists angered by federal legislation that would criminalize the nation's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants...

They must be letting the webmaster write the stories these days....

[Thrusher]

So, does this mean we are just "really, really screwed" instead of "really, really, really screwed"?

[untrained skeptic]

This isn't the first time Frist and Reid have reached an agreement on this. Their compromise hasn't been voted on yet. Hopefully we haven't broken the gridlock on this in the Senate yet, because the Senate version needs to die a horrible death.

[KarlInOhio]

This is why the GOP is affectionately known as the "Stupid Party" by those of us in the know.

Bipartisanship is when the Stupid Party and the Evil Party get together to do something that is both Evil and Stupid. The Senate "not an amnesty plan, we promise" comes to mind.

[Tokra]

Key to the agreement is who will be negotiating a compromise with the House and its tough enforcement-only bill.

The House passed much more strict immigration legislation in December. It would subject the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States to felony charges as well as deportation.

Here's the only compromise I want to hear:

Deport the aliens WITHOUT charging them with a felony.

[NapkinUser]

Hard to imagine the system now is worse than another 1986-type amnesty.

[Vicomte13]

Keep your powder dry, folks, this is probably good news.

What it MEANS is that the Republican Senators have looked at the polls, listened to their constituents, and realize that they are going to LOSE CONGRESS if they don't get a Border Fence.

They have a delicate dance to do here, because the President's been talking about amnesty and guest worker. There will probably be SOME of that in the reconciled bill.

But the big thing will be a lot of extended fence, a lot of high tech sensors on the border, vastly expanded border enforcement.

What will probably come out is a bill that essentially CLOSES the border and steps up enforcement, and oh-by-the-way has a generic sort of slow amnesty and discussion of some sort of guest worker program.

Remember: the KEY to the whole thing is getting the border closed. And that's almost certainly to come out of this bill.

If that's there, Border Conservatives will have something important to defend, and will need to vote GOP this fall.