Posted on 05/15/2008 1:37:58 PM PDT by GOPGuide
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday added to an Iraq spending bill a controversial provision to help pave the way for undocumented agriculture workers to win legal status, a move that may reopen the divisive immigration debate on the Senate floor.
The so-called Ag-Jobs amendment, sponsored by Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Larry Craig (R-Idaho), would create a process that allows undocumented workers to continue to work on farms. Without the amendment, Feinstein warned that the U.S. would lose $5-9 billion to foreign competition, tens of thousands of farms would shut down and 80,000 workers would be transferred to Mexico. The bill would sunset in five years.
"Agriculture needs a consistent workforce," Feinstein said. "Without it, they can't plant, they can't prune, they can't pick and they can't pack.
"This is an emergency situation," she added.
The amendment was approved by a 17-12 vote with defections from both parties. Critics say the amendment amounts to amnesty for people who entered the country illegally. A broader comprehensive immigration overhaul, with a path for citizenship for the nation's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants, failed in a divisive Senate vote last year.
"No matter how one characterizes it, this enormous amendment still amounts to amnesty," said Chairman Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.). "I oppose amnesty. All these immigration issues should be addressed through the regular order."
The committee is moving Thursday to approve three separate measures: one to fund domestic priorities; another to provide $169 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; and a third to alter President Bush's war policy.
The Senate plans to take up the bills next week, and is likely to reject the war policy measure, but will likely approve the funding for the wars.
It is unclear whether Democrats have the votes to approve the domestic-spending provision since a number of Republicans want to add their priorities. The measure remains one of the few vehicles likely to get enacted before the election in November. The addition of a slew of amendments could doom its prospects in the Senate.
Feinstein is a tool...
There going to try to keep ramming amnesty down our throats. Time to man the phones, faxes and emails again! The toll free number for the Capitol switchboard is 1-800-965-4701. Congress critter ping!
What is the Toe-tapper still doing hanging around? I thought he was toast?
From the same festering wound that brings you all three remaining presidential candidates.
is jorge pitching or catching?
More of the same.
Gotta legalize some more democrat voters before November.
There’s time to stop this if we all hit the phones. It’s an obvious attempt to add more votes for the democrats next November.
As Hamlet said so well, I'll trust those two as I would an adder fanged.
Regards . . . Penny
It would be a waste of time for me to even bother calling Schumer or Clinton. Chucky was the one who wrote the last agricultural amnesty in 1986 and it was nothing but one big fraud, which even he admitted. Won’t stop him though for voting for another one...
...and a dull one at that.
I called Di Fi office and gave them a piece of my mind a shame this has to be tacked unto money funding Iraqi..put the wonderful bill out on its own merits..and it would not fly...but the democrats will try and tuck it in any bill they cam find.. and hope the people are asleep
I remember reading somewhere of the possibility that Pelosi employed illegals in her vinyards. I wonder how many of our Legislators, like the Federal government, employee illegals?
If this passes, all illegals will say they are working on farms.
It gives them the best cover, possible.
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I wonder if he’s played with any more men in bathrooms, lately.
ping
The Republican Party defines impotence. They had neither the moral authority nor the power to get the criminal sodomite Craig out of the party.
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