Latest on illegal immigration


Just part of the lates info on Illegal Immigration. Perhaps I am overreacting but I feel there is not enough interest here at NB.
We will be SH** out of luck soon. I have excerpted the first few paragraphs:

"Legislative Update
May 7, 2007

Senate to Fast-Track Guest Worker Amnesty Legislation

Sources on Capitol Hill are reporting that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) will be sending a guest worker amnesty bill straight to the Senate Floor during the week of May 14th. In doing so, Senator Leadership will invoke Senate Rule 14, which allows the Senate to bypass the regular committee process. Such a move would reduce the time opponents have to scrutinize the bill and keep the legislation on a fast track for passage.

Negotiations between the White House and Senators continue with regard to provisions that will ultimately be included in the legislation, and observers are waiting to see whether a compromise between the White House, Senate Republicans, and Senate Democrats can be reached. Sources now indicate Senate Leadership may use "place holder" legislation to get the guest worker amnesty passed. This means Senate Leadership would introduce either last year's Senate bill or a Senate version of the Flake-Gutierrez legislation (H.R.1645) and then use Rule 14 to bring the legislation directly to the floor. The legislation could then be voted on as-is, amended, or entirely stripped and amended with new compromise language hammered out with the White House. According to CongressDaily, Senator Specter has indicated this will take place using last year's Senate bill as a "place holder".

Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, has also suggested that if a compromise could not be reached with Senate Republicans, last year's massive guest worker amnesty legislation (S.2611) would be re-introduced. Speaking to the Anti-Defamation League, Kennedy said, "We'll have some form of vote on immigration."

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Misterbill,Rather than this,

Misterbill,

Rather than this, it would be better if nothing happened until 08

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misterb...I do not know yet w

misterb...

I do not know yet what is going to happen.

Jeff Flake has disappointed me in more ways than one since he came in. I think he is trying out for Scarborough's job lately.

No matter what, we had better have someone run on ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION if this bill is just watered down that passes, if it does, all for the pretend reason that this issue is taken care of and the republicans have a free slate to run on, same with this war, I already heard Collins come out today and say she was wanting some kind of a deadline by Sept.

There are numbers in the teens of republican senators up this coming election and the majority are RINO's if memory serves me correctly at the moment.

We had better get someone to run on the hard right....these Rovian bills are not going to pass muster for the real people out here.