Senators Unmoved by Bush Bid to Save Immigration Bill

Washington Post ^ | June 13, 2007 | Jonathan Weisman

[Nickname]

Even NOVA’s getting its knickers in a knot over illegal aliens lately, now that it’s impacting them too.

There have been stories out of Fairfax about residents demanding something be done about illegals packing into homes and affecting their property values.

Hopefully Warner and Webb are hearing from them, too.

I think you’re right about Virginia trending more liberal. I have family not far from Williamsburg and they’ve had a lot of people relocate there after fleeing the mess they’ve made in the NE.

[blam]

We need an Illegal Immigrant Deportation Bill.

[samtheman]

After the border has been certified secure by the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and the employment verification system is in place, the remaining provisions of the bill will go into effect.

These words would be outrageously funny if they weren't so pathetically sad.

[F.J. Mitchell]

BUMP! BLAM!

[txroadhawg]

Bush did not indicate whether he would request more money or change his border policies. Instead, he used charm to try to disarm his opponents. He told Sessions, for instance, that he plans to show up at a political fundraiser for him, despite the senator’s dogged stance against his immigration policies.

I think i’m going to hurl....

[samtheman]

We need an Illegal Immigrant Deportation Bill.

I'd be satisfied with a double-layer, barb-wire-topped, electronically-monitored border fence.

With the fence in place, we would at least have some breathing time to decide the next move.

[LibLieSlayer]

abc’s "Bad mourning America" was trashing Fred today. It is a sure sign of him being the “right” man... figuratively and literally!

LLS

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

Yesterday when Bush spoke after the meeting, he sounded discouraged about the bill’s prospects. I took that as a hopeful sign.

[anglian]

"If the illegals are deported, businesses might have to pay higher wages. What a pity."

The Pew Center stated they make btw $500 and $700 a week.

[Sal]

Now that the Bush admiinistration has run out of lies and insults, maybe it can do what people want, enforce the law.

Sorry, Moonman, but there is no intention to do that except for a couple dramatic busts to gain our trust and then go back to their original plan--the destruction of our sovereignty.

The rapidly decomposing cadaver in charge of our Department of Homeland "Security" made it quite clear that our security is not an issue with this administration at all:

But, Chertoff said, a broader crackdown on illegal immigration "is a hostage" to Senate intransigence.

IOW our families' security is a bargaining chip to muscle through their rotten bill. Keep in mind that the broader crackdown Chertoff will deliberately withhold includes Islamonazis with or without nukes, bio materials, and chem weapons.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Sessions needs a Bush appearance at one of his fund raisers, like a sprinter needs a cramp in his legs.

[blam]

"He told Sessions, for instance, that he plans to show up at a political fundraiser for him, despite the senator’s dogged stance against his immigration policies."

In Mobile June, 21st.

[org.whodat]

I certainly don’t expect Sen. Warner to stand up and holler anything.

He’s a sneaky, underhanded RINO who’s supposedly not yet decided where he stands on this fiasco.

True, dried up, to old for the job, needs to announce that he is leaving the senate,and let someone mentally competent run.

[org.whodat]

McConnell’s actually one of the bad guys on this. He wants to get amendments and bring the bill back.

Not really he ask for everyone that had an amendment to bring it forward, so the all could be talked about and voted on. That should take about five years.

But in the long run no one knows for sure where he stands.

[madison10]

"We're off the bill. We ought to stay off the bill for a while," said Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), one of the bill's sternest critics.

ROFL I wholeheartedly agree, but it sounds like he's speaking of a birth-control issue.

[org.whodat]

To do this, we must secure the border first.

Should read:, To do this, we must give lip service to securing the border first, but of course we can start handing out the z visa's at the same time.

Martinez and I cannot be voting in the same party!

[kabar]

I live in NOVA and the demographics of the region have changed dramatically over the last decade. The ERs are flooded with immigrants. And the county is now trying to enforce zoning and occupancy laws now that the complaints are increasing about overcrowding in homes and apartments. I don't live far from Herndon. There are growing grassroots movements in the region as the problem metastasizes. Manassas is fighting back. No matter what kind of spin the politicians place on it, the problem is growing.

27% of Fairfax County residents are now foreign born. The percentage of white students in the public schools has gone from 67% in 1995 to 50% in 2005. Hispanics increased from 9% to 16%. In Prince William County schools, the percentage of whites has decreased from 70% in 1995 to 45% in 2005 and the Hispanic percentage increased from 6% to 22% during that same period.

Brookings Institute population projections for the DC Metro area by 2036 see the numbers as 45% white, 27% black, 14% Hispanic, 8% Asian, and 2% other.

[org.whodat]

I think moonbeam chertoff, you are part of the problem!

[Renatus]

After what the Democrats did to Bork I made a vow to God
never to vote for a democrat ever. I have kept that vow and
plan to keep it “usque ad mortem”.

[Chi-townChief]

Those look like a pretty decent set of amendments to the bill.