Posted on 05/21/2007 8:28:26 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
Monday, 1:00 p.m.: Convene and resume consideration of the motion to proceed to S. 1348, the Comprehensive Immigration Legislation.
FACT: Workers approved for Z visas will be given a temporary legal status, but they will not enjoy the full privileges of citizens or Legal Permanent Residents, such as welfare benefits and the ability to sponsor relatives abroad as immigrants.
Then fill the one surrounding Washington with water.
placemarker bump
Does anyone have an actual transcipt of the bill???
I have read parts of the drafts from a link off MichelleMalkin.com It will make your stomach turn. I don't know if the "real" bill is public.
http://www2.nationalreview.com/dest/2007/05/19/immigrationdraft051807.pdf
Mind you- this is the DRAFT of the bill- barely readable to laypeople. As Sessions has pointed out- it has not been distilled into readable bill language...
Here’s a full text of S. 1348 from GovTracks.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s110-1348
There is a thread with the bill posted.
By the way, it just came out late yesterday. Everyone here has read it in it’s entirety I’m sure. They couldn't possibly be relying on emotionalism and propaganda. /s
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2007/05/white-house-defends-immigration-reform.php
. . . .’Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez [official profile] told CNN Sunday that for those critics “the only thing that would not be amnesty is mass deportation.” DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff [official profile] meanwhile challenged critics to offer alternative solutions instead of simply saying “this isn’t good enough.” Bush himself championed the deal in his weekly radio address [transcript; recorded audio] Saturday, insisting that it contained “all the elements required for comprehensive immigration reform”, specifically rejecting the “amnesty” characterization, and noting that the agreed reform would “require that strong border security and enforcement benchmarks are met before other elements of the legislation are implemented.”’
Sessions is doing SUCH a wonderful job.
Members of the American Meat Institute include Hormel, Cargill, and Tyson, all three of which closed plants and gave thousands the day off last May 1 for the illegal alien protest rallies.
Strangely the SF Chronicle was the only newspaper which covered that part of the story last year.
Grassfire’s analysis sounds like they never read the bill.
Based on the history of our leaders, we have every reason NOT
to trust them. But that doesn’t mean we neglect due dilligence.
Norquist was their point man on Muslims prior to 9/11, and probably still is.
I think he must be a Soviet agent.
Yes. His write-up of last years McCain-Kennedy ‘Amnesty’ was excellent. I’m waiting for him to get to the tax and welfare aspects of this one.
Legal status 24 hours after application EVEN IF THE BACKGROUND CHECKS ARE INCOMPLETE...
What good is a background check if they have only been here 5 months?
And WHO is going to do these hundreds of thousands of background checks and how long would this take?
Actually, I think he’s sleeping with Frank Sharry. This would explain a lot.
..and we need to keep pressing!
Sessions, Bunning and the senator from Louisiana spoke plain, intelligent common sense!!!!
Just wait til the Dems get up.....it will be chaos.
Corker from Tennessee up now....(my birth state!)
Post #177 I meant to go to SE MOM. Sorry!
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