DeMint Statement on Immigration Deal ("I don't care how you try to spin it, this is amnesty.")

DeMint ^ | 5/17/07

[Plutarch]

Paging Senator Byrd. A filibuster is needed. You’ve done it before, and you can do it again.

[NRA2BFree]

It’s imperative that we ALL contact our Senators to tell them NO DEAL! That bunch of traitors who met in secret and are going to try to ram this deal down our throat should be impeached/recalled/hanged because they are destroying America. Who in the sam hell do they think they are!!!

[outofstyle]

Assuming all 50 RATS want this

I don't know if that is a valid assumption. This is still a very divisive issue. There must be a few of them that would oppose this.

[zerosix]

There IS something YOU can do!!!

Call Your Senators Today!

Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

Toll free: 1-888-534-6226

[brytlea]

Perhaps we can call it amnimosity

susie

[vetsvette]

“Believing that you are powerless, and not calling both your senators, is a self-fulfilling prophesy.”

I did this some time ago — but to no avail. One, the Dummie couldn’t be convinced to change his position if someone held a gun to his head — and why should he — and the other, the RINO, believes that anyone not supporting a bill such as this is a racist.

This thing is a done deal. Sad but true.

[brytlea]

If we can’t make them abide by the laws right now, why would anyone assume we can make them abide by any new laws? How stupid do our politicos think we are? Apparently pretty darned stupid.
susie

[SevenMinusOne]

Not if there is a penalty associated (fine, etc).

If I go to a court room and a judge lessens my sentence by simply giving me another (lesser) penalty....That is not amnesty. It is a less degree of punishment then which could have been applied.

I'm not saying I agree with everything in this legislation. I don't......But way too many within our base are going off the deep end and looking (and acting) like a bunch of left-wing loons...(and how they react when they don' get everything they want).

[SevenMinusOne]

If we can’t make them abide by the laws right now, why would anyone assume we can make them abide by any new laws?

A lot of validity to that.....This is a complex 30 year + in the making problem....that is clearly going to eat our base away....all the while we are in the middle of a WOT.

Great for our enemies....terribly sad for this nation.

[HonestConservative]

Z visas are given after a background check; kinda like the one given before Bernard Kerick was nominated I guess. /s

[MBB1984]

I am proud that Demint is my state’s senator. I am even more proud that he is from Greenville. The other senator from South Carolina, pains me deeply.

[Jake The Goose]

Great minds think alike.

We are in total agreement.

[Kimberly GG]

“If we can’t make them abide by the laws right now,”.....

We can, we just choose not to...yet.

The laws that WILL be enforced are the NEW immigration laws. Our collective SCREAMS of ‘enforcement now’ will FINALLY be heard, and WE, the ‘vigilantes’ will be forced to abide by them.

[AuntB]

Immigration “Reform” Is Unmanageable [Andy McCarthy]

Oh, Finally! McCarthy wakes up! Funny how this is just dawning on so many of them.

[stan_sipple]

typical washington solution, slap some complicated bogus reform scheme and say its not amensty , when it wont even be carried out.

[TatieBug]

Just tried to send DeMint an encouraging emai and his site is shut down...that’s good news since it was linked from Drudge. We must encourage him to STAY THE COURSE ~ NO AMNESTY!

[AuntB]

We know they have Specter, McCain, Collins, Snowe, Graham, probably Sununu...

They also have Gordon Smith (R-Oregon) and Larry Craig (R-Idaho).

[tflabo]

“But the little we do know about the bill is troubling.

These Senate idiots voted for a bill they know little about? Amazing gross incompetence in DC.

[AuntB]

and how they react when they don' get everything they want).

Stop it already! What have we 'got'? We got a token 800 mile fence which they won't build. THAT is what we got. It's your turn to 'compromise'...like ENFORCE existing LAW! But NOOOOO! The open border crowd can't even do that.

[SE Mom]

And good news for Pence fans:

~snip~
Over in the House, Pence Opposes the Deal [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

“Over the past year I have worked with colleagues in the House and the Senate to achieve border security and comprehensive immigration reform without amnesty. I believe illegal immigration is a crisis that demands an answer, but amnesty is not the answer.

“From what we know about the Senate compromise, there are many commendable elements in the plan, including border security measures and a shift to a merit-based immigration system. However, ultimately the grand bargain is no bargain for the American people.

“By permitting illegal immigrants to get right with the law without leaving the country, the Senate compromise amounts to amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants and I cannot support it.

“I do hope to continue to work with colleagues in the House and Senate to craft final legislation that puts border security first and creates a temporary worker program, without amnesty, that requires workers to learn English and employers to operate under the law.”

05/17 05:08 PM

http://corner.nationalreview.com/