Are Rational Immigration Laws a ‘Job American Politicians Won’t Do’?
by James R. Edwards, Jr. (More by this author)

Posted: 06/18/2007
The immigration debacle reflects the sorry state of the U.S. Senate nowadays. Has the world’s greatest deliberative body really fallen so far?

Where is the extended debate, a real debate? Where are the Calhouns, the Websters, the La Follettes? Where is the respect for the process, our nation, the Founders?

The amnesty bill isn’t dead, with President Bush and Senate leaders twisting arms to revive this amnesty monstrosity and force through a “deal.â€