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Senate Shelves Immigration Bill
Associated Press Writer (Via Breitbart.com) ^ | Apr 07 10:27 AM US/Eastern | By SUZANNE GAMBOA

Posted on 04/07/2006 7:54:04 AM PDT by samcgwire

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To: bordergal

Wait a minute - after looking at the votes, not a single Republican voted for it! Not even Frist or McCain.....What gives? Could they actually be listening to us?


41 posted on 04/07/2006 8:11:19 AM PDT by Serenissima Venezia (Stop the “No Illegal Alien Left Behind Act” – call/email/fax/write your Senators today!)
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To: samcgwire
THOSE were the very words I told the offices of Reid, Hutchison, Cornyn, and Frist this morning--with one amendment: I called for a five-year moratorium (or whatever the time period proves to be) on ALL immigration until the backlog of processing current applications has ended.

Reid's staff member gave a defeated "thank-you" reply--unlike last week's shouted reply of "It's NOT amnesty!"

Regards . . . Penny

Postscript: Aren't you tired of hearing that we need to give the illegal aliens an opportunity to apply for citizenship? Gosh. I thought they had that right while they were living in their homelands!

42 posted on 04/07/2006 8:11:59 AM PDT by Penny
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To: Cold Heat
So true. I was hoping it would clear the Senate. It was looking like a bill I could support. However your right. If people think that every illegal will be deported and wish to hold out for that then we will never have a bill. There has to be a compromise. However, the status quo will continue. For those who say toughen the borders now and worry about amnesty later. Please. No Dem is going to fall for that. Well, I glad this issue is about over. Hopefully we won't have half the threads on here dealing with immigration. Time for some healing in this country and particularly in our own party. Its time to worry about the mid terms.
43 posted on 04/07/2006 8:13:03 AM PDT by catholicfreeper
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To: Penny

Make that www.numbersusa.com and www.fairus.org.


44 posted on 04/07/2006 8:13:20 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: samcgwire

How about Sessions?


45 posted on 04/07/2006 8:13:21 AM PDT by gsan
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To: sasafras

this is a great idea, but will the Republicans realize this is a win win if they do it? Let the demonrats b!tch and moan, and let the Republicans act on this idea. The demonrats would be finished for 40 years.


46 posted on 04/07/2006 8:13:58 AM PDT by From One - Many (Trust the Old Media At Your Own Risk)
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To: Serenissima Venezia

I'd wait and see. Right now I am not too trusting of any of the wafflers, including Senor Frist.


47 posted on 04/07/2006 8:14:03 AM PDT by bordergal
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To: samcgwire

The Mexicans in Los Angeles will have go on singing "Weeee shallll over-runnnnnnnnnn!"


48 posted on 04/07/2006 8:14:03 AM PDT by D-Chivas
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To: TomGuy

TomGuy, you should know by now that to a 'Rat, "compromise" means, Republicans do what 'Rats want.


49 posted on 04/07/2006 8:14:11 AM PDT by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: bordergal

Just like I suspected.

Democrats are interested in instant citizenship for people who break into this country illegally, while many Republican Senators seem to oppose such a ruling.

We have got to take a lesson from Israel on this one. Secure a giant concrete wall between the USA and other nations to keep criminals and other dangerous people out. Granted that many coming here are in favor of hard work, there are some really dangerous scumbags crossing in with them. How else do vicious gangs like MS-13 meet their recruitment numbers?

Notice that Kerry voted in favor of it. Will he reverse his decision tomorrow?


50 posted on 04/07/2006 8:14:25 AM PDT by Emmet Fitzhume (Democrats need adult supervision at all times.)
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To: HHKrepublican_2
WASHINGTON

The Senate sidetracked sweeping immigration border security legislation Friday, leaving in doubt prospects for passing a bill offering the hope of citizenship to stopping millions of men, women and children living in sneaking into the United States illegally.

51 posted on 04/07/2006 8:14:42 AM PDT by umgud (12 gauge, the original pepper spray)
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To: johnny7
It's like giving your wife a skunk fur coat... and then beaming like a jackass and expecting her to wear it!

This is the best comparison I have seen on the web. And it is sooooo true. Makes you wonder how they can even pretend to have scruples.

52 posted on 04/07/2006 8:14:43 AM PDT by Snoopers-868th
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To: bordergal
Could you please post the URL for that?

Thanks.

53 posted on 04/07/2006 8:14:55 AM PDT by DumpsterDiver
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To: bordergal

Yes, I agree we need to keep phoning/faxing/emailing this week and even over the break to remind them we are still here and still fighting mad!


54 posted on 04/07/2006 8:15:55 AM PDT by Serenissima Venezia (Stop the “No Illegal Alien Left Behind Act” – call/email/fax/write your Senators today!)
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To: samcgwire

I wouldn't expect anything before November.


55 posted on 04/07/2006 8:16:41 AM PDT by hattend (Grow your own fruits and vegetables...help to put an illegal out of work.)
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To: samcgwire

What's wrong with going home and getting in line for a visa? Answer: They think they're already home...they moved Mexico's border way, way north.


56 posted on 04/07/2006 8:16:48 AM PDT by hershey
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To: samcgwire

Good, the blasted RINO's, turncoats and outright traitors needed a kick in the pants. I say all these illegals need to go back to wherever they came from.


57 posted on 04/07/2006 8:17:10 AM PDT by pctech
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To: DumpsterDiver

Certainly. http://www.numbersusa.com/hottopic/2454.html.

Go to the bottom and click on the vote tally link.


58 posted on 04/07/2006 8:17:36 AM PDT by bordergal
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To: samcgwire
Senator Graham (R-SC) says that the status quo is the biggest amnesty program.

I still think that no bill is better than this bill, but if the Republican majority is weakened or obliterated in November, Senator Graham will be proven correct.

If Democrats take control of any chamber, they will conduct "hearing" on President Bush every week and persecute Republicans like they did with an honest, competent man, Tom Delay.

The immigration issue will be put on the back burner and zillions of new illegal residents will pour in.

59 posted on 04/07/2006 8:17:50 AM PDT by george wythe
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To: samcgwire

This is great news {provided they don't suddenly "save the day" with a last minute compromise later today}!

At this point our greatest asset in this fight is the illegal immigration protesters. They may very well do something so outrageous that even even the now comotose
Senate will wake up!


60 posted on 04/07/2006 8:18:57 AM PDT by Cedric
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