Posted on 06/03/2007 11:31:52 PM PDT by Deek1969
After a week at home with their constituents, the Senate architects of a delicate immigration compromise are increasingly convinced that they will hold together this week to pass an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, with momentum building behind one unifying theme: Today's immigration system is too broken to go unaddressed.
Congress's week-long Memorial Day recess was expected to leave the bill in tatters. But with a week of action set to begin today, the legislation's champions say they believe that the voices of opposition, especially from conservatives, represent a small segment of public opinion. Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), who led negotiations on the bill for his party, said the flood of angry calls and protests that greeted the deal two weeks ago has since receded every day.
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Citizenship for illegals means they will have the right to VOTE.
Citizenship for illegals means they will have the right to run for and hold public office as high as US SENATOR.
Keep fighting folks. I faxed a heck of a nasty note to Senor Bush and the RNC yesterday.
I am not so complacent to think this will not become law.
Put Lamar Alexandar (TN-R) on the list, he doesn’t know how he will vote...but leaning toward it. He’s up for re-election in ‘08.
It’s a revenue bill, which means the Senate cannot originate it. Both Tancredo and Hunter are poised to blue slip it in the House, killing it, because of that Constitutional violation.
But if the Senate takes out the revenue provisions, it won’t get enough Senate votes to pass, because then there will be no support for the lie that it isn’t amnesty..
It’s dead, Jim.
What arrogance.
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