Thread: US Senate to make new try at immigration law after huge prot

These (MOD EDEIT) still don't get it:



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US Senate to make new try at immigration law after huge protests
May 02 7:15 PM US/Eastern
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The US Senate will make a new attempt this month to agree on immigration reforms, a top Republican said after more than one million people demonstrated for immigrant rights.

Senator Bill Frist said the upper chamber could consider the issue again in two weeks, after having failed in April to bridge broad differences over proposals to give 11.5 million illegal immigrants legal status.

But Frist, leader of the Republican majority in the chamber, said he wanted the new legislation to concentrate on tightening border security against illegal entrants and not offer an amnesty to them.

Huge protests in recent weeks by mainly Hispanic groups hit a new peak Monday with a one-day economic boycott and street protests across the United States, to back legislation offering illegal immigrants legal status.

At least 600,000 people took part in two major rallies in Los Angeles -- organizers claimed there were 1.5 million -- and more than 400,000 others in Chicago.

Hispanic groups also called a one day strike, for children to be withdrawn from school and a boycott of stores to show the economic weight of the immigrant community.

"Today we march, tomorrow we vote and if they deport us we will jump over the border fence," chanted marchers in Los Angeles waving US and Mexican flags.

Frist partly acknowledged the point of the boycott: "We know that many of our states and economies are very dependent on legal immigrants for work."

But he said he will back reform "that starts by tightening our borders" and includes "a strong interior enforcement programme", as well as a temporary worker program.

As for the army of illegal immigrants, Frist said: "We don't know who they are. They're in the shadows and we need to devise a plan to bring them out of the shadows, short of amnesty, but treats them in a fair and compassionate way."

But Harry Reid, leader of the opposition Democrats in the Senate, who mostly favor an amnesty program, showed the body remains divided.

"Every day we wait to fix our immigration system, the situation gets worse," Reid said.

President George W. Bush has sought for more than two years to pass an immigration reform bill that would regularize the inflow of illegal workers with a temporary worker program.

Last week Bush met with senators seeking to squeeze out a compromise, but he met with strong resistance from members of his own Republican party who are facing elections in November and voters angered by the large number of illegal immigrants and the demonstrations on their behalf.

Republican congressman Tom Tancredo told Fox television that the average American does not accept it when they see on the streets "people demanding that they have rights, that they should be entitled to things that other people who have done it the right way ... even though they snuck into the country."

Even if the Senate comes to a compromise over the immigration issue, it will still have to square any measure with a hardline draft law already passed by the House of Representatives that would make illegal entry, and helping illegal immigrants, a crime.

People in the United States "are concerned that we need to strengthen our border and enforce our laws," said House Republican leader John Boehner.

"They expressed frustration with the idea of granting those that are here illegally amnesty," Boehner said.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/05/0 ... e8ew2.html

Yesterday I heard both Bill Frist, and Trent Lott say that the first thing on their agenda was border security first.

Lott also said that after Monday's demonstrations, some of the Democrats, are moving over towards the Republicans side of this issue. Some of the Democrats were not happy seeing them marching in the streets making demands , boycotting work and schools!

Both Frist, and Lott said that there needs to be two provisions....
one right now, for tightening up border security and another one later for the 12,000,000,000 illegals we have here now.

Lott said NO Anmesty , NO Guest worker program, and if we have a guest worker oprogram, they need to GO BACK HOME AFTER the season ended.

Frist said that we also need to go after the employers that hire illegals.

Let's hope and pray for all our sakes, they mean what they say.

praying hard here in AZ!

Frist has done this to us twice before. Keep that in mind. I don't know about Lott, but I imagine he has an angle, too.

If they will just close the dang borders to illegals, I'd be delighted!