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Senators Work to Revive Immigration Bill
Associated Press ^ | 6/14/07 | Julie Hirshfield Davis

Posted on 06/14/2007 7:14:46 AM PDT by Cat loving Texan

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1 posted on 06/14/2007 7:14:47 AM PDT by Cat loving Texan
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2 posted on 06/14/2007 7:16:13 AM PDT by xcamel ("It's Thompson Time!")
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Revive is a good word.....it is dead!


3 posted on 06/14/2007 7:16:24 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Truth : Liberals :: Kryptonite : Superman)
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Here’s an idea, how about the senators working to do what their constituents voted them into office to do.
4 posted on 06/14/2007 7:17:16 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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Senators work

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5 posted on 06/14/2007 7:17:55 AM PDT by GFritsch ('All men will hate you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved'." -)
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This bill is like The Undead. KEEP THE HEAT ON!!


6 posted on 06/14/2007 7:18:04 AM PDT by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .....)
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Key Republican and Democratic senators are reaching for a deal to resurrect their stalled immigration compromise by requiring that some $4 billion be spent on border security and workplace enforcement.

Sons of b*tches, every one.

7 posted on 06/14/2007 7:19:14 AM PDT by skeeter
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They are going to Penn&Teller us with a lot of smoke & mirrors, mis-direction.

Then when our attention is elswhere, Viola, the Amnesty Bill has already passed. Then a quick adjourment and the whole Senate is out for the 4th before we know what happened.

9 posted on 06/14/2007 7:20:13 AM PDT by AU72
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I say again “WE DON’T NEED NEW LAWS”.....enforce the ones we have. These guys are just playing politics and our people will suffer for it.


10 posted on 06/14/2007 7:21:55 AM PDT by RC2
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How many billions have been spent since the failed 1986 bill, and our borders are not secure? We already have seen the 700 mile fence shrink to 300 miles since last year’s Senate bill was passed. Is Kay Bailey Hutchison’s bill going to deport families whose heads do not return to their homelands? Of course not. Trent Lott has already assured his Mississippi farmers and chicken plants that all enforcement amendments will be stripped out of the bill in conference, so this enforcement sham means absolutely nothing.
Keep the heat on your Republican senators. Don’t allow them to think you are fooled by their rhetoric.


11 posted on 06/14/2007 7:25:23 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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In the category of appearances, maybe this could become a conservative bill. If Kay Bailey Hutchinson’s amendment passed and all Z Visa applicants have to be deported first, and 4 billion for border security is spent and implemented AND there is a 5 year delay between those two events and then the subsequent start of other features of the bill . . . then this is a conservative bill.

It would mean deportation before Z Visa, it would mean a sealed border and workplace enforcement, and 5 yrs is too long for illegals without jobs to hang around. They would have to self deport.

This is actually moving in a conservative direction.


12 posted on 06/14/2007 7:25:44 AM PDT by Owen
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Then a quick adjourment and the whole Senate is out for the 4th before we know what happened.

Those that vote for it..need to know they just lost their jobs.

13 posted on 06/14/2007 7:32:12 AM PDT by LaineyDee (Don't mess with Texas wimmen!)
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I can’t imagine this bill doing anything claimed for it:

1. Illegals will be come legal upon signing. They will, just, not have applied yet or for that matter crossed the border.

2. There will no longer be cheap labor, they have all rights to minimum wage, etc.

3. There will be no border security, what’s the point.

4. I don’t, necessarily, accept the notion the the illegals will vote Bolshecrat, to be that dumb you have to be an American lib.


14 posted on 06/14/2007 7:35:05 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (Bolshecrat, the amoral party of what if and whine.)
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Maybe you better read this post:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1850026/posts?page=1,50

From that post:

In other words, if the bill gets through the Senate and the House, the Democrats and the open borders Republicans will work together when the bills have to be reconciled in committee to strip out any amendments that the "grand bargainers" don't like. Therefore, at this point, it doesn't matter what amendments pass, because any tough enforcement provisions that slip through will be rendered toothless when the bills are reconciled.

15 posted on 06/14/2007 7:35:06 AM PDT by 50mm (Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist - G. Carlin)
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bump


16 posted on 06/14/2007 7:37:36 AM PDT by VOA
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Do you want to fax a Senator to let them know you are against the Immigration Bill? Three steps, takes less than a minute, for free and you don't even need to get up from your computer.

1. Don't know who to fax? Here is a list of GOP Senators being targeted by the pro-amnesty crowd to flip.

2. Need a fax number? Go to http://www.grassfire.org/19042/targets.htm (Ignore the prices, you are just after the fax numbers).

3. Fax for free from the Web. Put your message in the text box. Go to http://faxzero.com/

That's it. You're done.

You can also email them from a webform here. This site also has their office phone numbers.

17 posted on 06/14/2007 7:38:28 AM PDT by Pete (My kid sister's first novel: Far Horizons at http://www.amazon.co.uk/)
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Republicans may be trying to turn the tables on the Dems.
18 posted on 06/14/2007 7:41:11 AM PDT by Cedric
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"......reaching for a deal that would require FOUR BILLION $$$$'s be spent on border security and workplace enforcement".

Give me a break. Transparent idiocy and smoke screen.

Four billion of our tax bucks going right down the drain.

Leni

19 posted on 06/14/2007 7:42:08 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Don't give up the ship. Keep phoning & emailing. Remember, we lost the Alamo!)
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"...maybe this could become a conservative bill."

The ONLY thing this Bill is going to do once it's passed and signed into law is to give legal status to anyone (and all their relatives) who can get here and apply so they can avail themselves of our treasury which will need constant re-filling with more and more of your tax $.

20 posted on 06/14/2007 7:43:20 AM PDT by penowa (NO more Bushes; NO more Clintons EVER!)
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