Bill Frist's enforcement only bill meshes very well with the House bill. I'm praying that it prevails and the Senate-House conference will then proceed to turn out a decent measure. It can happen.
Such a result would give me 70% of what I want which is a lot better than what traitors such as Specter, Kennedy and Cornyn are sponsoring. Why are they traitors? Because they trash our national sovereignty and reward foreign born law breakers (illegal immigrants)
In the sense that it is enforcement only it meshes. But it is much weaker than the House version.
Frist says he is going to lop off and only present the enforcement provisions of the Arlen Sphinctor Bill. The enforcement measures in that bill are essentially the same as what Kyl and Cornyn had proposed: better than McCainneddy but not much! I think they call for about 50 miles of fence (vs 700 in the House Bill) and reauthorizing the hiring of the 10,000 new agents that were authorized back in December of 2004 (nothing new) and a few new detention beds, a few new interior enforcement agents. The only thing really good that it had was mandatory workplace social security number verification against a database.
But you are right. At least it is a decent starting place and it is NOT SHAMNESTY!
If this passes, I'd bet good money we'll see the President's first veto...
Fixed it.
There, fixed it