Thread: Senate Uses Military Bill for Amnesty

Does anyone know what happened with this?

http://www.teamamericapac.org/

Those sneaky, coniving, arrogant little, little, uuugggghhhhh!!!

I think we'd better check out what is going on with this. FAIRUS usually does a great job of sending out emails about what's going on in congress, but I sure missed that one.

Will have to double check.

I am soooooo po'd!!!!!!!!!

Immigration votes set in Senate
By Suzanne Gamboa
The Associated Press

http://www.denverpost.com

Washington - Senate Democrats and Republicans reached a deal Friday on how to handle immigration issues attached to a measure paying for U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The immigration measures spilled into the Senate's debate on an $80.6 billion military spending bill after the House included measures in its version to deny driver's licenses to illegal immigrants and make it harder for foreigners to stay in the U.S. on claims of asylum.

Under the deal, the Senate will vote Tuesday on three immigration measures. Each would require 60 votes to survive, including one sponsored by Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., that would give temporary visas to migrant crab pickers and oyster shuckers in time for Maryland's seafood season.

Another, by Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, would provide workers for the agricultural industry. It has support from growers and farmworker advocates, but it faces opposition for providing legal status to some workers.

Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., said he opposes using the military spending bill to address immigration, but he is proposing an alternative to Craig's measure. Co-sponsored by Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz, it doesn't include the legal residency provision.

"While reforms are needed to provide a legal way to meet our agricultural labor needs, we must also remove incentives for illegal immigration and put stricter provisions in place for seasonal workers coming across our borders,' Chambliss said.

The White House, Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and other Republicans had pleaded with senators to keep immigration off the spending bill and address the issue later. Democrats refused, saying it was because Frist wouldn't commit to opposing the immigration provisions in the House version when negotiators try to blend the two.
Mikulski defended her measure to provide Maryland seafood processors and other businesses with more seasonal workers hired through the H2B temporary-visa program, saying "the cat was already out of the bag on immigration.' Businesses are limited to 66,000 H2B workers a year, and that ceiling was reached Jan. 3.

The House's Iraq spending bill includes the immigration measures that its Judiciary Committee chairman, Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., wanted in the intelligence reorganization bill President Bush signed in December. Sensenbrenner withdrew the provisions back then after House and Senate leaders promised he could attach them to the first major legislation likely to reach Bush's desk.

They are almost universally opposed by Senate Democrats but also by state motor-vehicle commissioners, some GOP senators and religious groups that say people fleeing persecution would be harmed.

It certainly has to be gratifying to the men and women in uniform who are fighting and dying in Irag and Afghanistan to know that the United States Senate cannot concentrate on their needs but instead use the opportunity to aid and abet those who are invading our nation. It certainly must be gratifying to these brave souls to know that they are fighting and dying to make this nation safe for invading foreigners. It certainly must be gratifying to those who have served in this country and have been discharged from the military in the past couple of years to see the jobs they formerly held now filled by illegal aliens.

These Senators have not one iota of decency or respect for America.

Damn their sorry hides, how much lower can they sink?

Nitty:

I think they've already sunk below the earth's crust.

The only place for them to go gets a lot hotter

Lesson 101 in dirty shyster Bush-Rove politics. Bush's favorite the shell game. While you are watching the Pence-Hutchison Hand, he is winning the game with the other Hand. Yep. He will do it to you, while you are looking the other way. Wag the Dog!!

Dixie

Dixie, you are right,and people call him dumb?

Originally Posted by nittygritty

Dixie, you are right,and people call him dumb?

He's not dumb, he's STUPID. Cause you can be stupid and cunning, and boy is he ever cunning (sneaky)

Mikulski defended her measure to provide Maryland seafood processors and other businesses with more seasonal workers hired through the H2B temporary-visa program, saying "the cat was already out of the bag on immigration.' Businesses are limited to 66,000 H2B workers a year, and that ceiling was reached Jan. 3.

When is this idiot up for re-election? The visa cap has been reached, get over it!