Thread: In Increments, Senate Revisits Immigration Bill

August 3, 2007
In Increments, Senate Revisits Immigration Bill
By JULIA PRESTON
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/washi ... immig.html

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 — When a broad immigration bill failed in the Senate in June after a vitriolic national debate, many legislators said the issue was dead, perhaps until President Bush left office. But already some of the less contentious pieces of the bill are returning to life.

Last week, the Senate approved $3 billion for border security as part of a Homeland Security Department spending bill. Democrats and Republicans have also begun laying ground for a bill to create a new temporary immigrant worker program for agriculture.

Another bill, also with bipartisan support, would give a path to citizenship to high school graduates who are illegal immigrants if they complete two years of college or military service. Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois and a sponsor of the bill, attached it as an amendment to the military authorization legislation that the Senate last month put off until September. Mr. Durbin said he would seek to move it again then.

[b]The agriculture and student measures “have a decent chance of passing this Congress because they have strong champions, broad bipartisan support and they have been around for a long time,â€

"While the bill’s prospects seem favorable in the Senate, the outlook is not as bright in the House."

No problem...the Dems will just cheat the vote like they did the other day.

It is time to start pressuring the Congress.

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