Re mental illness: That might apply for Kennedy. Hard to forget his tirades.
I am stunned at how many of our senators are willing to sellout this country. Since a far higher percentage of Democrats supported this sellout, could at least some of the pressure came from Democrats or perhaps Soros?
The dimensions of the "sellout of the country" may be much broader than just this unwillingness to place serious limits on "undocumented" immigration. In resistance to building a wall, or enforcing the laws already on the books concerning illegal border crossings, the die is already cast on what is to become the North American Union, much on the lines of the European Union. There is also talk of putting the currency of all three countries, the US, Canada and Mexico, into a single currency much like the Euro. A supra-national parliament, and more importantly, a high court to back it up, with the power to overrule the national legislatures of any of the participating nations, and a common passport-citizenship, is also part of the larger agenda.
Viewed in this light, the seeming intransigence of so many of our Senators, to come to compromise with the House version of the immigration bill, turns out to be pressure from the "money people" who are in favor of this larger political union. Believe me, at the individual level, the people of both Mexico and Canada are as much against the idea of a continential union as voters in the US are.
The intellectuals throughout all three countries like the idea, and the power elite seem to be largely on board. This does not make the scheme a good deal, either for the other countries or the US.
But I would POSITIVELY exclude Quebec. They should be in the European Union anyway.