I agree it’s not dead. The backers of this bill will not give up, and neither should we. We’ll fight them tooth and nail on this. On that they can be certain.
I think we need a competing bill to help kill it for good. Something along the lines of enforcing the border, building that fence, stepping up enforcement against employers with maybe a guest worker provision. Then promise to revisit the "what to do about those already here" stuff after two years.
This would allow the critters to say they are addressing the problem, etc..
“I agree it’s not dead. The backers of this bill will not give up, and neither should we. We’ll fight them tooth and nail on this. On that they can be certain.”
Let’s call them today and pummel them some more. Call it pre-emption.