Reid moves Amnesty vote from WED to next MON night

From Roy Beck, Numbers USA


All of your calls and faxes are helping to block the amnesty deal.

Senate Majority Leader Reid (D-Nev.) had insisted that he would force an amnesty vote Wednesday morning in an attempt to push everybody to come to an agreement.

But the negotiations broke down again tonight and it was clear that the amnesty vote would have lost tomorrow.

Reid says there is a lot of progress and he hopes the White House, Sen. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Sen. Kyl (R-AZ) will agree to the details of the amnesty by next Monday night.

And Senate Minority Leader McConnell (R-KY) is saying tonight that negotiations continue tomorrow and that he is very hopeful the amnesty will come together by Monday.

So, we have our work cut out for us.

For now, we at NumbersUSA are going to get a good night's sleep.

We will get back to you tomorrow on next steps that need to be taken.

I understand from the GOP debate tonight on TV that Sen. McCain (R-Ariz.) again reminded us all why this country is in such a mess on immigration -- the ability of major political figures to do a combination of massive lying and self-deception. McCain was the author of last year's bill that would have given permanent residence to nearly all illegal aliens, but he said tonight that he has never supported amnesty! As Rosemary testified, the bill that McCain has pushed has the same basic outline as the bill in 1986 that everybody agrees WAS an amnesty!

-- ROY