Shamnesty Lives
Shamnesty Lives?
WASHINGTON - The Senate’s comprehensive immigration bill, bolstered by new language meant to quiet accusations the bill delivers amnesty, passed a crucial procedural test Tuesday that vastly improves but does not guarantee its chances of passage. The Senate voted 64-35 to bring the bill back to the Senate floor from the legislative limbo to which it had had been exiled earlier this month, when it appeared to die after a bipartisan filibuster.
Once again, no matter what color one paints a turd, the turd is still a turd.
Bill supporters needed 60 votes to bring the bill back to the floor for debate. Had that threshold been missed, it’s likely the bill would have been dead for the remainder of the 110th Congress.
The vote came just a few hours after President Bush pumped up the rhetoric in support of the legislation.
“The immigration system needs reform,” Bush said at a briefing on immigration reform in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
El wrongo. Passing another turd of a bill after all the other turds of bills addressing the ILLEGAL immigration bills THAT HAVEN’T worked is not the answer. The answer is getting off of your lazy asses and enforce that which we already have.
“The status quo is unacceptable. … I view this as a historic opportunity to act, for Congress to replace a system that is not working with one that we believe will work a lot better,” he said.The Senate will consider a series of 24 amendments to the bill during the remainder of the week while the White House and the bipartisan Senate leadership lobby hard for its approval by Friday and the start of a week-long Fourth of July congressional recess.
The contents of the bill is unacceptable and unenforceable. Who is it really behind the drive to pass this bill in the panic of which it is being shoved down our throats?
The bill is still vulnerable to charges of amnesty, possibly reduced by a last-minute change in the treatment of applicants for the all-important new Z-visa. This visa grants instant probationary legal status to any illegal immigrant living or working in America now.
“I know people think that the draft language is a perfect draft and believe it should somehow attain its own mythological status, but this is pretty straightforward. If an alien applies, he or she gets legal status, full travel and work authorization no later than the next day,” said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, an opponent of the bill.
Opponents consider the Z-visa the equivalent of granting instant amnesty because they assert it will be very hard for the federal government to deport anyone in possession of legal status.
The Z-visa provides indefinite legal status and is the first step to obtaining a green card and citizenship — an 8- to 13-year process that includes the payment of fines, processing fees, criminal background checks and representations that applicants attempted to learn English.
Under the original Senate bill, only the head of a household would have to return to his or her country of origin to apply for a Z-visa. Everyone else in the household would receive one immediately. Under the new language, any illegal immigrant 18 years or older would have to return to their country of origin and apply.
Perhaps the loop-holes as put forth by Jeff Sessions will be plugged? As we were motivated before, we will motivate once more and shoot this bill down in flames as we did before.
It proves one thing to me that neither the President or congress gives a d@mn what we think or say.
Bush we put you in the W H and so help me I take it all back. I will NEVER support anything of yours again.
As for the backstabbing amnesty senators you’ll need us, but I won’t be there for you either.
Neither is expecting them to pay the d@mn fines. Stop being stupid here.
Obey laws that we have already!! Shock wave, if DC won’t do the laws that we already have, do you people really think they’re going to with this one? LOC, we need that fence and it won’t get done that’s NOT what this amnesty is about.
And screw the amnestysenators as far as I’m concerned.
Bush too.
talknowtownhallcom, I notice all the alleged polls you posted are from the LA Times. This city and state are totally clogged with illegal criminal aliens.What in the world would make you think these polls represent what AMERICANS think? How stupid. Fortunately, we’re not as stupid as you apparently hoped.
well said american55
Left wing TP’s and left wing polls….no wonder mental illness permeates the left.
“You said in post #1 that “President or congress gives a d@mn what we think or say”.” You forgot a key word there lefty. If you’re going to quote someone at least be accurate.
“I posted 3 polls that prove otherwise.” Where was this? At your site? HAHAHAHAHAHA.