Posted on 06/19/2007 7:09:04 AM PDT by EagleUSA
WASHINGTON — GOP negotiators of an immigration reform bill are crafting a large border security amendment with mandatory, immediate funding that they hope will assuage concerns of both Republicans and Democrats, FOX News has learned.
The senators are looking at a way to please conservatives who are skeptical Congress will ever fund the bill's border security provisions, as well as keep Democratic negotiators on board in a last ditch effort to save the comprehensive reform bill.
It is a political tightrope fraught with peril, but the members know they need more Republican support to break through the logjam.
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a principle author of the amendment with Republican Sens. Jon Kyl and Mel Martinez, says his amendment is designed to be "a confidence builder" to address members' concerns that ramped up border security provisions in the bill won't, in the end, get funded.
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Not going to work — Build the fence on both borders first so when you deport illegals they stay deported. We also need a virtual fence that is under surveillance 24/7 so INS can immediately send agents to anywhere on the fence where there is a breach.
Maybe Bush/Rove and some others can get away with pandering to the illegals, but they can forget the rest of us. We are not buying.
Don’t want to hear about anything but securing the border and identifying the illegals. Excuse me but they have not done a good job of building the fence right now so why would we listen.
Let me be honest here. Yes, I want border security and interior enforcement, but even if these things come about, I really don’t want these 20+ million illegals made legal. I don’t want them here and especially the chain migration that they will produce, which could run into another tens of millions more sooner rather than later.
If we secure the border, provide interior enforcement and worker verification, most of these 20+ million will go home. If we need more workers, we already have guest worker programs that can be expanded.
Build the fence, in the bill which was signed LAST YEAR.
First.
When it’s done, then discuss amnesty.
Not the other way around.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Yup.
RECALL all these SOB's!!
If only it had a provision prohibiting effective immediate amnesty (probation) for 20 million illegals, it’d be perfect.
This is such a red herring. If funding were the problem, then the administration would already be implementing the border security measures that are already funded (e.g., building part of a fence, etc.). Since Bush is not doing that, it becomes clear that the problem is unwillingness to enforce our laws, not inability due to insufficient funds. Consequently, this appropriation is just an attempt to make this fraud of a bill merely a more expensive fraud. It makes me sick that they’re trying to sell us this lie with our own hard-earned dollars.
SSDD.
The sad part is they think we’re stupid enough to fall for it. Even after all the letters, faxes, phone calls and emails, all the discussion in the new and old media, they still think they can throw us an enforcement bone and we’ll run after it and scoop it up.
Not gonna work, Senators! You do not have our trust on this issue.
We no longer trust congress or our administration to enforce any immigration law..new or old. That means we must by democratic means replace them.
The desire by our establishment to import millions of unscreened, uneducated workers is an insult to all of us.
Help me folks. I’m not as smart as these RINOs.
In all this discussion about this $4.4 BILLION bribe to enhance border security, has anyone seen exactly what $4.4 BILLION will be spent on? I have looked everywhere, including Thomas, and I can’t find any specifics as to where this enormous pile of dollars will go. Maybe they will use it to print up millions of cardboard signs for the border saying “Please Don’t Enter”. Or maybe it will go to remodel Chertoff’s office. Probably it will go to the favorite companies of Harry Reid and Lindsey Graham to do endless studies on how one might secure the border.
Gosh, I wish I wasn’t so dumb.
Typical Beltway, myopic narcissism - as if the real "peril" is found in exposing themselves to political risk. Absent is any attention to the danger our country faces if they actually pass this monstrosity.
I include Trent Lott into that group too.
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