Posted on 05/11/2006 8:45:34 AM PDT by LNewman
WASHINGTON -- Senate leaders reached a deal today on reviving a broad immigration bill that could provide millions of illegal immigrants a chance to become American citizens and said they'll try to pass it before Memorial Day.
The agreement brokered by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and Minority Harry Reid, D-Nev., breaks a political stalemate that has lingered for weeks while immigrants and their supporters held rallies, boycotts and protests to push for action.
Key to the agreement is who will be negotiating a compromise with the House, which last December passed an enforcement-only bill that would subject the estimated 11 million to 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States to felony charges as well as deportation.
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Traitorous No-Fence GOP ping.
As I said below, it's obvious from the fact that 7 of the Republicans will be judciary committee members that the Senate will produce a negotiating committee with a RINO/Dem majority that will argue for amnesty. The fix is very much in.
Now all that is left is for Hastert to appoint a House committee with a RINO/Dem majority and we'll all be one happy North American continent.
Over my dead body!
"...put in place a realistic guest worker program for the future," Kennedy said."
ie., No Border Enforcement....
"Traitorous No-Fence GOP ping."
Oh, it's a lot worse than not building a fence. The bill set to be passed by the Senate allows all 11 million illegal aliens to bring their wives and kids over. And that permission is explicity NOT subject to the several hundred thousand/year limit that applies to the legal residents who play by the rules. Suckers.
When you actually READ the provisions of Kennedy-McCain, you start to wonder if they are really TRYING to destroy this country.
That's what you say now, but you'll continue to vote for pro-Open-Borded candidates on Election Day
First and foremost is that this bill needs to deal with securing the border. Once that has been resolved and implemented, then we can deal with those that are already in here illegally. If this is not the approach that the Republicans are taking, then I predict they will most certainly be defeated this November.
"WASHINGTON -- Senate leaders reached a deal today on reviving a broad immigration bill that could provide millions of illegal immigrants a chance to become American citizens and said they'll try to pass it before Memorial Day."
Dead on arrival in the House.
The Senate is a lost cause...they are intent on selling out the country. There's still hope with the House if they hold fast.
ping
So, that's, low end estimate, 30 to 40 million. Plus the millions already here. I hope my kids qualify for some special moinority status when college starts. ROFL
That has to be our approach. Keep the pressure on the House. The Senate is a lost cause. But we can keep the pressure on the House and prevent this from passing.
No I won't!!! Citizenship means too much to me. My grandmother, born to legal citizens in the 1890's in Oregon City, lost her US citizenship during WWII without committing a crime. She married a US legal resident who was still a German citizen. Congress stripped all citizens of the US citizenship during WWII who were married to German nationals. She was forced to reapply. Even the Japanese didn't lose their citizenship.
A deal to allow millions of illegal democrat voters.
Frist is a dead duck.
I held my nose last time out and voted for the lesser of two evils. That will not be the case in the future ... meaning I will vote my conscience and, hopefully, for someone with the integrity to abide by the oath of office.
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