Posted on 12/26/2006 1:29:56 PM PST by stevie_d_64
WASHINGTON, Dec. 25 — Counting on the support of the new Democratic majority in Congress, Democratic lawmakers and their Republican allies are working on measures that could place millions of illegal immigrants on a more direct path to citizenship than would a bill that the Senate passed in the spring.
The lawmakers are considering abandoning a requirement in the Senate bill that would compel several million illegal immigrants to leave the United States before becoming eligible to apply for citizenship.
The lawmakers are also considering denying financing for 700 miles of fencing along the border with Mexico, a law championed by Republicans that passed with significant Democratic support.
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Think about this aspect...
The other important agenda item in that meeting between Fox and Bush was the Trans-Texas Corridor project...
If they can get the amnesty deal through by this summer, and keep the lid on all of the BS about this "NAFTA Highway" so to speak...
It will pretty much be the end game...I hope its not, but again, with this news getting out, and the plan for this landgrabbing Homeland Security killing nightmare...
Time to clean house and put an end to these endeavors...
We won't get a vote on either...
unfortunately, many conservatives who "sent a message" in November - did so by removing the one body who could have stopped this, the Republican House.
they will now reap what they have sown.
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Really?
What a bunch of jack-asses.
but we knew that going in, that the only check to a wide open immigration bill - was the House.
and now we'll get to see what all those blue dogs Dems, elected in republican districts, being "tough on immigration" as one of their positions, do here. If all of them were to buck their party, and join with the House R minority, there still might be votes to stop this. But I doubt they will hold.
Nick Lampson being one of them...
Going to be interesting to watch this guy operate...He knows that unless our Republican leadership abandons us again, that his days in that seat are numbered...
We got a fair "bull pen" of conservatives lining up to do a better job than the leadership set us up for this next time...
More than likely some people will have a very short memory...
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