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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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I didn't "dismiss' anything - I asked 2 simple questions - Carter's amnesty to draft dodgers WAS "blanket" and all you had to do for the desertion amnesty was fill out some paperwork. Of course there were differences - that's what makes it an "analogy" rather than "exactly the same" (I thought you weren't going to respond to me anymore because I don't "get it"?).
Kyl is one of the better Senators on this GWBush shamnesty. Yet Kyl's proposals are still far from what we need. We need a fence that future DC hacks cannot tamper with like they've downgraded all enforcement efforts. Interior and on the border.
This country has huge problems when apprehended OTMs (other than Mexicans) are being released into interior America to do what they please.
Not if you cut off social services to non-citizens so they will self-deport. We won't be able to do that once the illegals are citizens and unemployable.
Right now some business have to employ illegals to be able to compete with rival businesses that also employ illegals. If we tell businesses that those days are over and anyone emloying an illegal will face jail time then it will all stop. Most businesses won't suffer as the competitors will be under the same rules.
"They have to get caught 3 times to be expelled."
ABSOLUTELY INSANE.
Another toothless law.
Well, there it is. They are the Americans. We are not.
In other words, nothing will happen to you. You will just stay working and hiding as an illegal alien because Immigration won't do anything to find you and deport you. No different that today.
I assume they mean the line they decided they didn't want to stand in the first time they crossed the border illegally? Why would they go back and why would they worry about any consequences if they didn't? We don't enforce our immigration laws and the border is, and still will be, wide open for them to continue to pour across. Our crummy politicians will enforce the parts of this bill that are beneficial to the illegals but not the parts that require they be picked up, sent back, and prevented from walking back across. I've had it with the RINO's.
What does "bttt" stand for?
According to Bear Stern a year ago, there were 20 million illegals in the country. According to the Pew Hispanic Inst. half the illegals in the country are employed.
President Carter was not inviting members of the Armed Forces at that time to desert their posts, or giving a retroactive stamp of approval to illegal behavior.
What President Bush is doing right now has no precedent.
Even comparing it to to President Reagan's disastrous amnesty proposal isn't fair, because the lawmakers enacting this sham make no pretension of actually enforcing the provisions of this proposed law.
Amnesty that leads to citizenship is a disaster in any form. Once the illegals become citizens, they will be unemployable and businesses will have to import new illegals to work cheap and benefit free.
The new citizens will be completely unemployable as citizens and will have to resort to welfare - welfare that we won't be able to turn off since they will now be legal citizens.
Amnesty: n. a decision by a government to forgive people who have committed particular illegal acts or crimes.
--Cambridge Dictionary of American English
Until 1986, the United States had never forgiven the act of illegal immigration in other than individual cases and had never rewarded large numbers of illegal aliens with the opportunity for U.S. citizenship.
Congress has passed 7 amnesties for illegal aliens, starting in 1986.
See more information at www.NumbersUSA.com.
Don't compare grapes with pineapples. An illigal invasion of this nature is much more serious that a speeding violation. This invasion caries with it the liklihood of causing irreversible damage to this country
I've seen your posts, and it appears to me that nothing would please you more that a complete abolition of our borders and our immigration laws.
Go peddle this crap elsewhere.
With all due respect, although I don't like either him or Souter, they are not even in the same league as the former ACLU lawyer bitch.
Well, of course not - Carter was in the Naval Academy and not President at the time of said infractions - I believe Johnson presided over most of those. Why pass "amnesty" if you aren't going to grant those provision under the law.
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