Senate temporarily sidelines immigration legalization bill

Houston Chronicle ^ | Sept. 26, 2007 | MICHELLE MITTELSTADT

[Delacon]

"With conservatives being barraged with calls, faxes and e-mails from anti-illegal immigration groups that view the DREAM Act as amnesty, some Republicans who supported the measure in the past have been reluctant to do so now."

 

Don't you love it when you make a difference?

[goldstategop]

It will fail when brought up as a standalone measure. That and the AgJobs amnesty measure both deserve to be defeated. The American people have spoken again.

"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

[sheana]

“The politics is right and the commitment is there,” Bernstein said. “We’re not giving up.”

But for how long? It will be back. Sooner rather than later.

[- Smokestack Lightning]

Durbin and immigrant rights advocates... can go straight to hell

[Delacon]

Don’t forget S-Chip. That travesty has wording that substantially weakens a requirement that persons applying for those services show proof of citizenship or nationality.

[graygirl]

“Durbin and immigrant rights advocates... can go straight to hell”

My feelings exactly.

[Red_Devil 232]

Bernstein is an advocate of the illegal DREAM act. His comment means it will be back.

My thoughts are that the politics are wrong and there should be no commitment to pass this!

[LIConFem]

They're just waiting for things to die down a bit. They'll try again when they think we're not looking or preoccupied with something else.

Sneaky bastiges....

[AmericanInTokyo]

Legislative assistants for these bastards, up on The Hill, will constantly monitor the sentiment out there in flyover country at the grassroots, and when they see a chance, an opening, WHAM!, they will shove it through.

They are just waiting for us to get our guard down.

[MNJohnnie]

How I wish Republicans would learn this habit. Democrats NEVER admit defeat but keep trying trying trying trying. Republicans lose a vote and drop the issue.

[MainFrame65]

==> “They’ll try again when they think we’re not looking or preoccupied with something else.” <==

Thanks to the new media, that will NEVER happen again. My senators’ minions hear from me twice a week, without fail.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

>>They are just waiting for us to get our guard down.<<

You got that right.

[gubamyster]

ping

[neverdem]

Liberals with La Raza, i.e. The Race, how do you figure?

[Sal]

Yeah, National Council of La Racists.

[penowa]

"All who care about this matter should know that we will move to proceed to this matter before we leave here," he [Durbin] said.

Look for this to be slipped into something on a voice vote at the last minute where there is nothing recorded so they think we can't hold them accountable and we hear nothing until Bush has signed it, and it's a done deal. That's my guess. They aren't going to quit and neither are we, so it will have to be something like that.

[Cacique]

btt

[AmericanInTokyo]

Mark your calenders everyone for NOVEMBER.

They are going to try this crap again and in earnest.

The Hispanic papers in the US (with a large illegal alien readership) states that will be the case, and other press corroborates it.

[Liz]

N-i-c-e job FReepers.

The prospects for immediate Senate action on the DREAM Act, which would grant legal status to hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants, disappeared Wednesday amid Republican opposition.

But we need to stay alert----Dem hyphenate sluts won't give up.

[Greg F]

I saw a good idea on another thread today. Fax / e-mail every story about an illegal committing a crime that you see at Free Republic to your Congressman and Senators. New one practically every day. One committed person can send a lot of faxes. If there are a few in a congressman’s district then he’ll really get a lot. And the Senators. Forget about it.