Updates in the “Infamous Bill”
June 5th
WASHINGTON (AP) - A broad bipartisan immigration deal was threatened Tuesday as the Senate prepared to vote on a Republican proposal to make it harder for millions of illegal immigrants to qualify for green cards.
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Showdowns were expected on Democratic efforts to allow more family-based immigration under the bill and more Republican proposals to make the path to legalization for illegal immigrants more burdensome. (link)
So, it seems the internal fight continues. Repubs will never win back some of the base they have lost but at the least a few of them will die trying to make it a little more annoying to become a US citizen. 
If anything else.
Here are some more actions by individuals being taken to edit the proposal.
Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J. -wants to allow more than 800,000 people in based on ‘family connections”
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas- wants to ban illegals who violated deportation laws from obtaining legal status.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., is proposing allowing more spouses and minor children of legal permanent residents to immigrate to the U.S., by exempting them from visa caps.
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., plans an attempt to phase out the point system that gives little credit for family ties to a U.S. citizen or permanent legal resident.
Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., wants to double, to 90,000 a year, the number of green cards available for parents of U.S. citizens.
Hmm, Maybe this bill won’t be anything like it was supposed to be. Maybe the democrats will get a hold of it and really make it a living hell!
Is it just me… Or is the only proposal that so much as looks a little negative towards illegals come from a…You know… One of those evil guys with Rs after their names? But wait. I can’t trust them because when some do something bad, that makes all of them horrible…
You know what. Those few evil republicans we have might just be the difference between a little amnesty and a lot of amnesty. Think about that, if it doesn’t hurt your brain too much.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Whether I like it, or not.
AND don’t give me none of that, they aren’t any better than the democrats bullcrap. You ain’t seen how bad democrats can get. Just wait till ‘08….Just wait. With presidential power…They are gonna make the GOP look like a candy store.
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This unfortunately did not make me happy:
Sen. Sessions Releases List of 20 Loopholes in the Senate Immigration Bill
The Senators website lists the [url=http://sessions.senate.gov/pressapp/record.cfm?id=275456][color=red] 20 Loopholes in the Senate Immigration Bill, here [/color][/url]
What do you think?
June 6th, 2007 at 1:18 amShadowFox
I think you might be operating under a false assumption here Orange. That being that we either support Republicans trying to add amendments to this and make it better or we end up with the dem bill. There’s a third way, a better way for us and the nation and that’s no bill. We need to get the R’s to just gum this thing up, filibuster it and make it unpassable. Even if the republican amendments get into it it’s still a horrible, unacceptable monster. A sh*t sandwich is still a sh*t sandwich even if it comes with a side of fries.
Another problem is that the RINO caucus being led by John McClinton won’t let amendments be made to his baby. He and the other usual suspects today defeated the Cornyn amendment. They won’t allow this thing to come anywhere near being “fixed”. It can be stopped but only if the rest of the party and whatever 1/2 reasonable democrats cross over work to that end. I’m still shocked senseless that my 2 donks are actually on the right side of this so there is hope.
Beside to be “political” about this, killing the bill would be extremely helpful to the party in 08 because it would force immigration to be a campaign issue. That’s why McTreason and the dems are trying to ramrod this through now because it being a campaign issue is the LAST thing on Earth they want.
June 6th, 2007 at 8:37 pm