Senate Passes Immigration Bill Overhaul

My Way News ^ | May 25, 2006 | DAVID ESPO

[Nachum]

The beginning of the end.

[umgud]

Yup, make all your illegals legal, let in millions more. Problem solved.

[riri]

hmmmm. I wonder if I get a spot in a gated community or a shanty town over looking a dump in the new America? Good grief.

[mtbopfuyn]

"They have to pay a fine. They have to undergo a criminal background check. They have to pay back taxes, they have to learn English and they have to go to the back of the line,"

Ya know, if we can find them to make them pay a fine, run background checks, have them file IRS forms, and sign them up for ESL classes, one would think it would be much easier and quicker to load them on buses headed south.

[nonliberal]

62-36

62 more offices the FBI should raid.

[socialismisinsidious]

We the people need to take back the control of the purse strings....if Congress isn't given the money they won't be able to vote buy via entitlements which is what this stupid bill is about....buying the Hispanic vote.

They have all the power (money) via withholding and the socialist income tax...why would they listen to US?

[Nuc1]

Sorry partner I think we are way past the beginning of the end. Judaical review was the beginning of the end. Hang tough, we still have a long way to go and I think the people are becoming more aware of the nation's situation.

[marron]

We have to secure the border.

"Comprehensive immigration reform" is a con game unless you secure the border.

I realize that the bill approved by the senate calls for tightening the border, but we already know that can easily mean nothing at all. I can't stress enough that controlling the border is absolutely necessary, whereas "immigration reform" really isn't.

Please, guys, do your jobs. Forget about immigration reform until the borders are secure. If and when you manage that one, we can talk about the rest. Actually, if you can manage that one, we won't need to talk about the rest. Secure the border and enforce existing law and the problem will resolve itself over time without the need for "comprehensive" anything.

[stephenjohnbanker]

I am building homes in a gated community with 24 hour armed guards WITH NOT ONE F'ING ILLEGAL EMPLOYEE!! People will buy these homes to be PROTECTED from the illegals.

[dynachrome]

"Not so, said Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., chairman of the Judiciary Committee, in a rebuttal to weeks of debate. "They have to pay a fine. They have to undergo a criminal background check. They have to pay back taxes, they have to learn English and they have to go to the back of the line," he said, referring to illegal immigrants who would apply for citizenship. "

The big lie technique is alive and well.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

That last group - Hispanics - comprises the fastest growing segment of the electorate, and millions made their feelings clear in street demonstrations denouncing the House measure and calling for passage of a broader measure.

translated:

The democrats and republicans care more about potential votes, then the majority of the existing citizens who have expressed that they do not want an amnesty. Thus they caved into empty threats by illegals and radical latino organizations and made a joke of the entire US legal system, border enforcement, and its laws.

[BW2221]

Arlen Specter wouldn't recognize the truth if it ran him over.

[karnage]

It still has to get through the House-Senate Conference Committee. The final bill should be a lot better.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Well he would if he found it in Scotch law.
The famous things Spector has brought us:
He was Ira Einhorn's ( the Unicorns lawyer) when he skipped the country for over two decades.
Arlen brought us the "magic bullet" of the Kennedy assassination probe.
He is one strange dude and no friend of conservatives. Toomy should have been backed instead of this guy.

[daguberment]

Come November, vote everyone of them out. Few exceptions there, Tancredo, Sensenbremmer, Hayworth... FR as a community should compile the definitive list. I've got only D's to deal w/ in Congress, but I'll work to replace them with an alternative D. Vote them out, this is not their job for life.

[anonymoussierra]

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""Why not say to those undocumented workers who are working the jobs that the rest of us refuse, come out from the shadows," said Arizona Republican John McCain, a key architect of the bill.

The legislation includes money to better secure the borders, provide a new guest worker program and give an eventual shot at citizenship to many of the estimated 11 million to 12 million immigrants in the country illegally.


The bill "strengthens our security and reflects our humanity," said Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., McCain's partner in Senate compromise. "It is intended to keep out those who would harm us and welcome those who contribute to our country."

Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and the Democratic leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, both sided with supporters, a reflection of the bipartisan backing for a bill that was months in the drafting and survived several near-death experiences.


Conservative critics attacked the legislation to the end after trying unsuccessfully to pull it apart with amendments.


"This bill will not secure our borders," said Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., one of the most persistent critics.

"This is amnesty," added David Vitter, R-La., who tried last week to strip out provisions relating to citizenship.


Not so, said Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., chairman of the Judiciary Committee, in a rebuttal to weeks of debate. "They have to pay a fine. They have to undergo a criminal background check. They have to pay back taxes, they have to learn English and they have to go to the back of the line," he said, referring to illegal immigrants who would apply for citizenship.

Still, Sessions, Vitter, John Cornyn of Texas and others echoed a view widely held among House Republicans, many of whom have vigorously denounced the Senate bill as well as Bush's call for a "comprehensive approach" to the issue."

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“American people do are working people. Uno: if immigrant comes, he or she need have assimilated of United States people and culture.”
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[Czar]

There's always a silver lining.

Now, at least we know who the traitors are--all 62 of them.

S. 2611 is going nowhere; the House is unmovable on H.R. 4437. Any Reconciliation conference will accomplish mothing. Both the Senate and the House know that.

There will be no immigration bill this year and we will merely return (actually we never left) to nonenforcement of our existing immigration laws, condoned and encouraged by the U.S. Senate and the President.

We are no longer a nation with a leadership which believes in the rule of law.

Plan accordingly.