[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

I believe that there were two immigration bill in 2006, one in the senate and one in the house. I think the senate version was amnesty, but I can't find any amnesty in the house version (LINK:H.R._4437). Of course, the house bill would have to come closer to Specter/Kennedy to get through the senate.

In Decenber 2006 (after the senate bill was dead) Perry said LINK: With a more secure border and a reasonable guest worker program we can allow guest workers to help build our economy without offering citizenship.

Perhaps Perry thought about amnesty and changed his mind. Judge for yourself. Perry does not make me comfortable on this issue. In any case, I have grave doubts that a huge guest worker program could come into being without leading to a "path to citizenship." Whether Perry wants that outcome may not matter if he opens the giant guest worker gate. The same goes for Palin and Romney.

I think the only thing that stopped the amnesty juggernaut in 2006-2007 from succeeding with a corrupt congress and misguided POTUS was the amnesty crowd's own greed (trying to include gang members etc).

[South40]

The four governors, including RINO Mitt Perry, sent their letter to both House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. From what we know of RINO Mitt Perry and his pro-ILLEGAL alien past, he no doubt supported the Senate version that included amnesty. And given that the governors of six Mexican states joined the US governors in signing a joint declaration to congress, I doubt very much the governors as a group supported the House version which included language to deport 10-11 million ILLEGAL aliens who were already in the US.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”I believe that there were two immigration bill in 2006, one in the senate and one in the house. I think the senate version was amnesty, but I can't find any amnesty in the house version (LINK:H.R._4437). Of course, the house bill would have to come closer to Specter/Kennedy to get through the senate.”

I was trying to follow this illigration bill at the time. The House bill had the exact opposite problem than the Senate Amnesty bill did. It made it a Felony to be here illegally. Why was that a problem? There was a huge political backlash over it as Democrats played it up to Hispanics (Bush didnt support that House bill naturally) so House Republicans put up a 'cave' amendment to remove that part of the bill, and then House Democrats joined some Republicans in voting the amendment down (for obvious political reasons) leaving the Felony provision in.

Then they went into elections with the same Democrats demonizing Republicans for that House provision. Yet there was no bill sent to GWB to sign because the House and Senate were so far apart that they could not be merged, in fact I dont even remember if the house ever passed their bill.

Moral?? As I always say: “Don't bite off more than you can chew”