“Under the legislation as drafted, money for border enforcement would be collected gradually as illegal immigrants pay the fines and fees needed to achieve legal status.”
In other words, Never.
What an absolute joke.
U've laid your bed, now bend-over & prepare for Impeachment.
It’s amazing that the president seems to believe that he has any credibility. He is the weakest president in a long, long time, and seems unable to grasp that fact.
The Democrats are ALL SILENT on this issue.....it’s only Republicans that are divided......hey Pubbies....THAT should tell you something....KILL THIS AMNESTY CRAP!
I’ve read all of today’s stories on this, and there are two schools of thought:
1). $4.4 billion for “increased border enforcement” (http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/06/bush_hopes_prop.html)
2). The rhetoric of the 12 million-plus “hard working, peaceful illegals” who illegally entered the country for no other reason than a better life, the illegals who “deserve” their piece of the American dream...
I’d like to go for increased border security and treating lawbreakers like lawbreakers. What’s so difficult about that? What part of “NO AMNESTY” does President Bush NOT understand?
God help us.
This has become a dictatorship.
First, send back the illegals.
Then, build a seriously imposing wall.
Since my two senators of Dumbocrats, I just sent emails urging opposition to Senators Kyl, Graham (no hope), McConnell, Cochrane, Allard, Coleman, and Corker.
George W. Bush - the president who sold the United States down the river. In a few hundred years, when the history books discuss the former United States, Bush will be identified as the primary contributor to the downfall of this once great nation.
Unless and until Compean and Ramos are completely exonerated (not just pardoned,) and those responsible for their unjust prosecution and conviction are themselves in Federal prison, there is no way any offer or promise to improve border security can be taken at all seriously.
Doesn’t any bill that proposes spending money have to originate in the House?
A single Senator can prevent the suggested amendments from being even debated. It requires unanimous consent to move forward with those amendments. To do otherwise would violate Senate rules. Someone like Sessions or Demint can raise an objection to the unanimous consent request and stop the amendment from being brought up for a vote. This is the same thing Sessions did before the last cloture vote which failed. It can be done again.
Irregardless of Senate procedure, the $4.4 billion in funds is just a sop to get conservative Senators to buy off the amnesty bill as a whole. That will not happen as long as the amnesty and guest worker portions of the bill remain intact. Besides, are there not funds in the current fiscal year’s appropriations to build the border fence and hire more agents. If so where’s the fence and the additional Border Control officers. Has ICE been expanded in the last 6+ years. Have we controlled the border? Have we stopped the hiring of illegal aliens? No, No and No. Stop this nonsense. Build the fence, fine the illegal alien employers and employees, secure the border and enforce the law, period. Will that actually happen, I doubt it but it is worth a try.
They don’t represent the interests of the country or the public in any event.
Of course we are...bought sold and paid for by the internationalists who want to tear down America in order the m ake their third world countries work.