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Congress Nears Deal on Illegal Immigrants (breaking on cable networks)
AP/Yahoo News ^ | 4-6-06 | DAVID ESPO

Posted on 04/06/2006 8:33:43 AM PDT by STARWISE

WASHINGTON - In a last stab at compromise, Senate Republicans and Democrats reported progress Thursday toward agreement on legislation opening the way to legal status and eventual citizenship for many of the 11 million immigrants now in the U.S. illegally.

"There's been tremendous progress overnight," said Sen. Harry Reid (news, bio, voting record) of Nevada, the Democratic leader, while Majority Leader Bill Frist also expressed optimism that a long-sought compromise might be at hand.

There was no immediate reaction from President Bush, who has made immigration legislation a key priority.

The developments occurred after Frist unveiled a new bill late Wednesday night on the subject as the Senate headed into a test vote on the most sweeping immigration bill in two decades.

In general, the legislation would provide for enhanced border security, regulate the flow of future immigrants into the United States and settle the legal fate of the estimated 11 million men, women and children already in the country.

It was the fate of the illegal immigrant population that proved hardest to legislate, and it has left the Senate on the verge of gridlock for days.

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Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., as well as other key senators met before the vote to review terms of a proposed compromise.

In general, it would require illegal immigrants who have been in the United States between two years and five years to return to their home country briefly, then re-enter as temporary workers. They could then begin a process of seeking citizenship.

Illegal immigrants here longer than five years would not be required to return home; those in the country less than two years would be required to leave without assurances of returning, and take their place in line with others seeking entry papers.

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To: MaineVoter2002
What evidence do you have that the impreachment cannot be successful now with a GOP majority?

Are you high? The answer is in your question.

1,221 posted on 04/06/2006 2:00:33 PM PDT by sinkspur (Things are about to happen that will answer all your questions and solve all your problems.)
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To: MaineVoter2002

Can you answer the question though: "Are you in favor of an impeachment?!" Here - I will show you how easy it is to answer: No.


1,223 posted on 04/06/2006 2:01:09 PM PDT by clawrence3
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To: Liz

If those in the shadows come out with verifiable proof they've been paid without employers reporting them, without Congress applying an amnesty to those employers also, I can see a trainwreck for them on the horizon.

That will come back to bite the arses of those supposed-to-be pro-business GOPpers.

They in Washington rush headlong into decisions without thoroughly thinking them through to their end. If they ultimately lose their big corporate doners and their most conservative base over the mess, it serves them right.


1,224 posted on 04/06/2006 2:01:43 PM PDT by azhenfud (He who always is looking up seldom finds others' lost change.)
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To: vik

99% are Catholics and pro-life though. We can deal with the Socialism down the line.


1,225 posted on 04/06/2006 2:01:58 PM PDT by clawrence3
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To: sinkspur
Yes, you did.

Don't slither away from your statements-although I suppos we should be used to that response from you-just because you're too cowardly to own up to them.

The only reason AMERICANS won't do "stoop labor"-as you sneeringly describe it-is because they do not want to work for slave wages.

I have news for you, dingus.

We abolished slavery and indentured servitude in this country, and the fact that you and your Big Agra/Wall St. Journal chums don't like that state of affairs doesn't mean anything to me, or the vast majority of Americans.

My reality-and the reality of all of the other people who aren't reflexive Bush bots-is the reality where our country is being systematically destroyed, and the party in power is waging unrestrained warfare against the middle class.

1,226 posted on 04/06/2006 2:02:43 PM PDT by Do not dub me shapka broham ("The moment that someone wants to forbid caricatures, that is the moment we publish them.")
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To: lfod1776

You must not care if the economy tanks then?


1,227 posted on 04/06/2006 2:03:00 PM PDT by clawrence3
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To: sinkspur

What evidence do you have that the impreachment cannot be successful now with a GOP majority?

Really?

Where's social security reform with the GOP majority?

Drilling In Alaska

Smaller government

The list goes on....


1,229 posted on 04/06/2006 2:03:08 PM PDT by MaineVoter2002 (http://jednet207.tripod.com/PoliticalLinks.html)
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To: Cyropaedia
Wrong...mechanization is the future of our agribusinesses. Not more wokers.

You got a lettuce-picking machine in your garage?

1,230 posted on 04/06/2006 2:03:08 PM PDT by sinkspur (Things are about to happen that will answer all your questions and solve all your problems.)
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham
How is this bill better than not granting fast-track citizenship to 20+ million illegal aliens?

I didn't say it was. I haven't read the bill, but what I've heard, I don't like.

That's different from saying that I wouldn't support any bill that has an amnesty component. My view is that the most important thing is to stop additional illegal immigration. If I have to trade some form of amnesty to get it, at least that's better than the status quo. But amnesty without significantly improved border protection is no better, and perhaps worse, than the status quo.

1,231 posted on 04/06/2006 2:03:33 PM PDT by XJarhead
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To: BlueNgold

That's a no-brainer. You get it from their undocuments.


1,232 posted on 04/06/2006 2:03:46 PM PDT by azhenfud (He who always is looking up seldom finds others' lost change.)
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To: clawrence3

Stick by your guns, clawrence3!
I knew a kid in San Diego, his family, parents & grandparents, worked in the fields in the Imperial Valley.
His father went to college, then law school, and so did the son.
The American dream: more lawyers.
;^)


1,233 posted on 04/06/2006 2:04:33 PM PDT by tumblindice
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To: ladyjane

But who are we going to vote for in the next elections??? The Democrats are much worse when it comes to stopping illegal immigration. The Democrats wanted INSTANT citizenship for ALL illegal immigrants already here.


1,234 posted on 04/06/2006 2:04:33 PM PDT by Thunder90
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To: XJarhead
How will giving amnesty to millions of illegal aliens-and their extended "family"-reduce immigration in any way, shape or form?

We've tried this-repeatedly-in the past, and each attempt to "reform" immigration has simply led to greater and greater waves of illegal aliens crossing our border.

1,235 posted on 04/06/2006 2:04:58 PM PDT by Do not dub me shapka broham ("The moment that someone wants to forbid caricatures, that is the moment we publish them.")
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To: CowboyJay

How many Mastercards are there floating around with your account number being used? These cards should also be tied to a bank account and the access to their payroll checks. The banking account number is set up with many checks that can be refined as time goes on. A counterfeiter who would try to use somebody's number would generate a termination order. That would require someone to go back to their home country and get a new card. Not a happy prospect. The countefeiter would be severely punished if caught. There are many ways that could be used to safeguard the system. I am not really as good as the experts.


1,236 posted on 04/06/2006 2:05:22 PM PDT by jonrick46
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To: tumblindice
LOL.
1,237 posted on 04/06/2006 2:05:29 PM PDT by Do not dub me shapka broham ("The moment that someone wants to forbid caricatures, that is the moment we publish them.")
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To: vik
Then raise wages, mechanize or go out of business. America does not need to destroy itself over the price of lettuce.

Farmers don't go out of business. They get subsidized.

1,238 posted on 04/06/2006 2:05:34 PM PDT by sinkspur (Things are about to happen that will answer all your questions and solve all your problems.)
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To: tumblindice

First thing we do is kill all the lawyers.

/sarc


1,239 posted on 04/06/2006 2:07:29 PM PDT by clawrence3
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