THIS is what they want, my friends.
Posted on 06/06/2007 10:02:57 PM PDT by doug from upland
That is the headline on Drudge and all he has for now. Since Matt is undoubtedly in bed on the East Coast, we can probably thank Andrew Breitbart.
The immigration bill is on the brink of collapse in the Senate. Let's hope for some more developments soon.
On illegal immigration, W is a Liar, and he knows he is a Liar. May his legacy suffer accordingly.
Just saw a replay of Brit Hume’s show and Fred Barnes was saying it would pass Senate and eventually in The House. Praying that the Drudge headline is correct and Barnes is talking out his butt.
If you are a male, it’s not too late. Start looking and get to crackin’.
ping
Well, don't worry. Washington, D.C., is on the preferred nuke targets of al Qaida. Is your God named Allah, too?
Well, as my fellow Buckeye and House Minority leader John Boehnner would say.
this piece of (excrement) bill is dead.
Just shows that we can support him on the war and justices and ride him on immigration and social spending.
Still, this illegal immigration bill is too important to sell out on or to screw up with.
Better we secure the borders first and then later deal with illegals.
Or how about just enforcing current laws?
[Because of beefed up enforcement] an estimated 500,000 to 700,000 illegals had left the Lone Star State voluntarily.
Hmmm. Enforcement sounds like an option to me.
Get to crackin’ LOL you darn well better have cranked out some babies if you come at me with that!
Tinfoil hat.
The Unseen Hand.
None Dare Call it Conspiracy.
Call it Conspiracy.
Trilaterals over Washington.
Tragedy and Hope.
Barnes is pretty savvy. He’s probably aware how the big money is getting spread around to buy the votes needed. Money....the mother’s milk of politics.
On the verge of collapse? Be still my heart.
Don’t let up even 1%. These kinds of stories often aim to defocus opposition to this piece of trash bill. Yeah, I know you know that. Drive a stake into its heart.
Immigration Bill in Doubt After Vote
WASHINGTON -- A fragile compromise that would legalize millions of unlawful immigrants risks coming unraveled after the Senate voted early Thursday to place a five-year limit on a program meant to provide U.S. employers with 200,000 temporary foreign workers annually.
The 49-48 vote came two weeks after the Senate, also by a one-vote margin, rejected the same amendment by Sen. Byron Dorgan. The North Dakota Democrat says immigrants take many jobs Americans could fill.
The reversal dismayed backers of the immigration bill, which is supported by President Bush but loathed by many conservatives. Business interests and their congressional allies were already angry that the temporary worker program had been cut in half from its original 400,000-person-a-year target.
A five-year sunset, they said, could knock the legs from the precarious bipartisan coalition aligned with the White House. The Dorgan amendment "is a tremendous problem, but it's correctable," said Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa. The coalition will try as early as Thursday to persuade at least one senator to help reverse the outcome yet again, he said...
I think they believe these illegals will make up for the people we did not get born in America who were needed but aborted.
Only problem is these are all losers who will not make money and pay taxes, all they will do is take welfare and vote Democrat.
Pure stupidity.
THIS is what they want, my friends.
Hope bill is dead. Why is there not a filibuster going on (or is there)? Reid seems to think he will outlast the holdouts.
By CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press
Last updated: 4:14 a.m., Thursday, June 7, 2007
WASHINGTON -- A fragile compromise that would legalize millions of unlawful immigrants risks coming unraveled after the Senate voted early Thursday to place a five-year limit on a program meant to provide U.S. employers with 200,000 temporary foreign workers annually. The 49-48 vote came two weeks after the Senate, also by a one-vote margin, rejected the same amendment by Sen. Byron Dorgan. The North Dakota Democrat says immigrants take many jobs Americans could fill.
The reversal dismayed backers of the immigration bill, which is supported by President Bush but loathed by many conservatives. Business interests and their congressional allies were already angry that the temporary worker program had been cut in half from its original 400,000-person-a-year target.
A five-year sunset, they said, could knock the legs from the precarious bipartisan coalition aligned with the White House. The Dorgan amendment "is a tremendous problem, but it's correctable," said Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa. The coalition will try as early as Thursday to persuade at least one senator to help reverse the outcome yet again, he said.
Until the Dorgan vote was tallied, Specter and other leaders of the so-called "grand bargain" on immigration had enjoyed a fairly good day.
They had turned back a bid to reduce the number of illegal immigrants who could gain lawful status. They also defeated an effort to postpone the bill's shift to an emphasis on education and skills among visa applicants as opposed to family connections.
And they fended off an amendment, by Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., that would have ended a new point system for those seeking permanent resident "green cards" after five years rather than 14 years.
All three amendments were seen as potentially fatal blows to the bill, which would tighten borders, hike penalties for those who hire illegals and give many of the country's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants a pathway to legal status.
The Senate voted 51-46 to reject a proposal by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, to bar criminals -- including those ordered by judges to be deported -- from gaining legal status. Democrats siphoned support from Cornyn's proposal by winning adoption, 66-32, of a rival version that would bar a more limited set of criminals, including certain gang members and sex offenders, from gaining legalization.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., alone among his party's presidential aspirants in backing the immigration measure, opposed Cornyn's bid and backed the Democratic alternative offered by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.
Senators also rejected a proposal by Robert Menendez, D-N.J., that would have delayed the bill's shift in favor of attracting foreign workers with needed skills as opposed to keeping families together. Menendez won 53 votes, seven short of the 60 needed under a Senate procedural rule invoked by his opponents.
Menendez's proposal would have allowed more than 800,000 people who had applied for permanent legal status by the beginning of 2007 to obtain green cards based purely on their family connections -- a preference the bill ends for most relatives who got in line after May 2005.
Meanwhile, Sen. Hillary R. Clinton, D-N.Y., fell short in her bid to remove limits on visas for the spouses and minor children of immigrants with permanent resident status.
While several Cornyn amendments failed, he prevailed on one matter opposed by the grand bargainers. That amendment, adopted 57 to 39, would make it easier to locate and deport illegal immigrants whose visa applications are rejected.
The bill would have barred law enforcement agencies from seeing applications for so-called Z visas, which can lead to citizenship if granted. Cornyn said legal authorities should know if applicants have criminal records that would warrant their deportation.
Opponents said eligible applicants might be afraid to file applications if they believe they are connected to deportation actions. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said in an interview that Cornyn's amendment was "not a deal-killer" but would have to be changed in House-Senate negotiations.
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It's a sham...open borders for at least two to three more years because the fence will never be funded if this is killed.
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