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Agreement Reached on Senate Amnesty / Guestworker Bill(Contact Senator & Congressman/woman here.)
numbersusa.com ^ | 5/17/2007 | staff

Posted on 05/17/2007 12:00:39 PM PDT by kellynla

(May 17) Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and other Senate negotiators announced an agreement with the Bush Administration on an amnesty/guestworker bill today. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has set a May 21 cloture vote to begin debate on the bill.

Although the legislative language is not available yet, key components of the "compromise" include:

An immediate amnesty for nearly all 12-20 million illegal aliens who will get legal status for residence and jobs (with assurance of green cards no later than 13 years);

Mandatory workplace verification and some extra enforcement to try to slow the flow of the next 12 million illegal aliens enticed by the amnesty;

Tripling of the rate of chain migration of extended family from around 250,000 a year to around 750,000 a year for about a decade; and

New flows of 400,000 temporary foreign workers each year, bringing their families and having anchor babies who will be given U.S. citizenship.

(Excerpt) Read more at numbersusa.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; capecodorca; illegals; immigrantlist; immigration; senate; shamnesty; shamocracy; traitor; treason
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To: NRA2BFree

Perhaps I’m a tad too white for the Amnesty program.


61 posted on 05/17/2007 1:10:13 PM PDT by deadrock
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To: DaiHuy
Actually if you really want to know what this is about, it is about broadening the tax base

That's a large part of it for sure.

I can't find the figures at the moment but illegals have 'contributed' billions to the coffers without the liability of having to dole out SS, etc to them.
If this bill includes the illegals in SS, medicare, etc we are lost.

I'm going to wait for the particulars of the bill before I make a judgment but if it is amnesty, fast track to citizenship, inclusion in SS, medicare, etc. then I'm bolting the pubs and not to the dims.

62 posted on 05/17/2007 1:10:13 PM PDT by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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To: Bittersweetmd
It’s sad to say, but I believe you’re right, this is indeed the foreshadowing of things to come. The rule of law is under direct attack as it has never been and you’re right in your assertion that power is the name of the game now.

Perhaps Madison was correct in Federalist 10 when he discusses the reality of “factions” but incorrect in his solution - minimizing the effects of factions. And boy, do we have factions in the country and it’s completely unclear to see how the effects of them are minimized.

63 posted on 05/17/2007 1:10:38 PM PDT by mek1959
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To: Malacoda
Specter. He's like a particularly hardy fungus.

That is an excellent characterization! He had been my senator for many years and it seems as if he will never go away, kinda like the stuff that grows under the toes of nursing home patients.

64 posted on 05/17/2007 1:13:07 PM PDT by outofstyle (My Ride's Here)
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To: kellynla
"the clowns in D.C. are gonna be in for a RUDE AWAKENING come 11/2008!"

From what I'm hearing today, I think the clowns in DC are already feeling the heat!

I can't wait for the Lou Dobbs show tonight.

sw

65 posted on 05/17/2007 1:15:58 PM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife (Call White House 202-456-1111)
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To: DaiHuy

Broading the tax base by giving amnesty to 12 million people who fall under the “earned income credit” tax line and absorb 100 Billion a year in social services for which they pay nothing? Which KoolAid bottle did you drink from?


66 posted on 05/17/2007 1:22:04 PM PDT by Les_Miserables
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To: Vinnie
If this bill includes the illegals in SS, medicare, etc we are lost.

Even if this amnesty bill strictly precludes the illegals from claiming Social Security, you have to know that a few years from now a judge will find it unconstitutional to not give them Social Security for the time they claim to have been in the US using another Social Security number(s).

67 posted on 05/17/2007 1:23:24 PM PDT by RJL
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To: NRA2BFree
At least you bothered to learn English, you know how to use a computer you're a conservative, and because you post at FR, you are intelligent.

Why are you trying to discourage him by listing all the dis-qualifiers?

68 posted on 05/17/2007 1:24:58 PM PDT by Les_Miserables
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To: DEADROCK

I am very sorry that you appear to be educated, law-abiding, and an English speaker. These are characteristics that our leftist politicians do not desire. The ability to think and support yourself are a killer. Learn to speak Spanish and join the Catholic Church we may be able to sneak you into the US in the Vatican mailbag.

Keep trying, we need you. Good luck.


69 posted on 05/17/2007 1:25:41 PM PDT by A Strict Constructionist (Nobles Oblige, BS, Well take care of it ourselves!)
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To: DEADROCK
Perhaps I’m a tad too white for the Amnesty program.

They really don't care what color you are. After all, they're going to give ALL of the terrorists amnesty too, and God only knows what colors they all are. The secret is this: Just act stupid! That's what they're looking for. Stupid people are easier to control. LOL ;o)

70 posted on 05/17/2007 1:40:50 PM PDT by NRA2BFree ("The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves!")
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To: Gay State Conservative

trust me, Snowe and Collins will most assuredly sign onto this mess. They have supported every amnesty and cheap labor bill to surface.


71 posted on 05/17/2007 1:44:33 PM PDT by Jim Verdolini
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To: DaiHuy

Actually if you really want to know what this is about, it is about broadening the tax base.
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I’ve always wondered what in the world the reasoning was behind this apparent stupidity!


72 posted on 05/17/2007 1:48:10 PM PDT by cowdog77 (" Are there any brave men left in Washington, or are they all cowards?")
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To: kellynla

“Conservatives just need to TAKE BACK THEIR PARTY!”

There seems to be only one way to make that happen, massive losses in elections till they are all unemployed. The leaders in the party will not tolerate dissent from the riff-raff that are the base and will move heaven and earth to protect those rinos from primary challenges.

I am looking at the Constitution party. The republicans are simply too stupid to govern.


73 posted on 05/17/2007 1:50:50 PM PDT by Jim Verdolini
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To: kellynla

I called the ones in GA for whatever good that will do. The standard answer was that it isn’t happening ‘till Monday. We need to bombard them!


74 posted on 05/17/2007 1:58:28 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: Jim Verdolini
“I am looking at the Constitution party?”

Unfortunately without a CONSERVATIVE SUPER CELEBRITY like a Mark Levin, Ann Coulter or Rush Limbaugh, I don’t see the party making anything more than a blip on the radar screen

75 posted on 05/17/2007 2:29:47 PM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: kellynla
btt

STOP AMNESTY NOW!! WE CAN DO IT!!

76 posted on 05/17/2007 2:55:22 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: kellynla

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." - George Orwell

77 posted on 05/17/2007 4:31:05 PM PDT by rhinohunter (Even I have a better chance than Hagel)
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To: texastoo

That is completely untrue. Back it up.

He voted against welfare for illegals, among other things. He voted to increase legal immigration, which is attacked by certain rabid anti-immigration groups.


78 posted on 05/17/2007 4:31:34 PM PDT by Politicalmom (Better a Dem with an energized opposition than a liberal "Republican" with no opposition.)
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To: Politicalmom

Go to numbersusa and get his record of voting on immigration. Do your own research!


79 posted on 05/17/2007 4:39:20 PM PDT by texastoo ("trash the treaties")
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To: texastoo

I did do my research.

You are making an untrue claim and won’t back up your assertion.


80 posted on 05/17/2007 4:41:41 PM PDT by Politicalmom (Better a Dem with an energized opposition than a liberal "Republican" with no opposition.)
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