Thread: Nice SAVE

Nice SAVE

By the Editors

Congressman Heath Shuler, a freshman Democrat from North Carolina, has introduced a piece of immigration legislation known as the SAVE Act, an enforcement-only bill that would add 8,000 border-patrol agents and mandate that all businesses verify the legal residency of all employees. The Democratic leadership will not allow a vote on it.

Forty-eight other Democratic congressmen have co-sponsored the legislation, and we suspect that is just fine with Nancy Pelosi, who understands that some of her troops come from congressional districts that are not as enlightened as hers. Republicans are trying to find out whether those Democrats are committed to following their voters’ wishes, or are just posturing. They have filed a “discharge petitionâ€

The petition has 184 signatures today.

There were 185 signatures on the petition. Who decided to back down?