WEBCommentary Contributor
Author: Sher Zieve

Date: July 1, 2007
Democrats and Republicans: Joined Together to Stop Amnesty for Illegals

The first extraordinary event surrounding the sound demise of the Senate’s Illegal Immigrant Amnesty Bill is the participation of We-the-People in its defeat. The second is that this participation included the majority-on-the-same-side of both Democrats and Republicans. The most recent Rasmussen poll showed that only 22% of the American voting public—a poll that showed almost identical results for both Republican and Democrat voters—approved of the Amnesty Bill. Commenting on the Senate Bill, Rasmussen commented: “It is opposed by 52% of Republicans, 50% of Democrats, and 48% of unaffiliateds.â€