Thursday, 05 July 2007
 

They're still illegal. Now it's time to get rid of them.

Arizona takes immigration enforcement into its own hands again
Michelle Malkin

Take that, John McCain:

Beginning in January, employers in Arizona could face having their business licenses suspended or revoked if they get caught hiring illegal immigrants.

A new law signed Monday by Gov. Janet Napolitano created the state crime of hiring illegal immigrants and requires all businesses to verify the employment eligibility of workers through a federal database.

It’s intended to remove the economic incentive for immigrants to sneak across the border and help lessen Arizona’s role as the busiest illegal gateway into the nation.
The Democratic governor said she signed the bill because the federal government has failed to overhaul the country’s broken immigration policies, ...

See also:

• La Shawn Barber: Now that amnesty is dead, locals must act against employers
• Employers feel heat on immigration
• The brutal consequences of catch and release
• Name that party: Immigration edition
• WSJ still pushing open borders 

Contributed by Bill Faith on July 5, 2007 at 01:42 PM in Immigration | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Monday, 02 July 2007
 

The shamnesty post-mortem continues.

Updated and bumped (Doesn't anyone read blogs on Sundays?)

The funny/sad thing about this whole situation is that if George Bush had just been smart enough to do the right things in the right order at the right time he might very well have been able to have people ready to talk about some sort of normalization process by now. To do that, he would have needed to start showing some interest in border enforcement early in his first term or, barring that, shortly after 9/11. The Republican party controlled both houses of Congress right up till last winter. He could have started by showing some interest in actually implementing the border enforcement provisions that have been on the books since '86. After construction on a border fence was well under way and starting to show results the time would have been right to start introducing congressional bills (multiple bills, not one big all-or-nothing bill) to make it possible for some of the people who were already in the country illegally to stay legally. Since he wasn't smart enough to do things that way he ended up with nothing to show for his efforts except a lot of hard feelings among people whose support he'll still need in the coming months. Maybe our next President will be smarter.

Below the fold:

• The diminished credibility of the Dept. of Homeland Insecurity

See also:

• Republicans move on illegal immigration
• Did Kennedy Alter Ensign's Amendment?
• Illegal aliens announce “campaign of resistance”
• Immigration Bill -- Shut Down
• The Immigration Revolt Was Bipartisan
• New Vent: Who Believes Michael Chertoff?
• Mark Steyn: Impudent citizens got Sen. Lotthorn's goat
• A Bill So Bad Congress Wouldn't Pass It
• Rick Moran: The fallout from the immigration fiasco spells trouble for the GOP. 
• Fausta Wertz: A few reasons why many Hispanics didn’t want the immigration bill.
• Immigration Vote: End of a Presidency?
• First things first
• Video: Hey, how about an enforcement-only bill now, Chertoff?

The diminished credibility of the Dept. of Homeland Insecurity
Michelle Malkin

Actions have consequences. One of the negative consequences of the Department of Homeland Security’s push for shamnesty is its shrinking credibility. From the dog-and-pony show raids before shamnesty hit the Senate floor to the smearing of opponents during the legislative debate to the inaction of “emergency” border security appropriations after the bill’s defeat, DHS and its chief Michael Chertoff have abandoned principled enforcement of immigration laws for cynical, open-borders politicking.

We won’t forget the frenetic smear campaign that Chertoff waged against principled opponents of the Bush-Kennedy immigration disaster. We won’t forget that while global jihad marched on, Secretary Chertoff was more worried about the availability of cheap lettuce pickers than about terrorist operatives slipping past our air, land, and sea borders.

Now, in the wake of last week’s two attempted terrorist car bombings in London and Glasgow, Chertoff is all over the airwaves reassuring us that he’s got everything under control in the U.S. He appeared on weekend talk shows to encourage the American people to “be vigilant and report any suspicious activities to authorities.” ...

Contributed by Bill Faith on July 2, 2007 at 12:22 AM in Immigration | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Saturday, 30 June 2007
 

The shamnesty is dead. Where to from here?

Actually, that's not that hard a question. They're still illegal. It's time for our masters in Washington to start enforcing the laws that are already on the books whether they like it or not. I'm not confident George Bush is smart enough to realize it but the best thing he can do at this point to improve the chances of the illegals he cares so much about eventually getting the legal right to remain in this country is to get serious about getting a border fence in place. If, if, significant progress is made during the remainder of his term and he's succeeded by someone the public trusts, a lot of people who aren't willing to talk about any sort of legalization now might be willing to in another couple of years. I for one, and I know I'm far from alone, will continue to do everything I can to block any sort of legalization process till I've seen proof that Washington is willing and able to control our borders. In the mean time it's past time for DHS to start making life very unpleasant for the executives of any company employing illegal aliens.

My personal prediction, which I don't like one bit, is that the only thing that's going to get the Bush administration to get serious about immigration enforcement is a major terrorist attack on American soil, carried out by jihadis who slipped across our border with Mexico. It will happen some day, the only question is when.

Bush urged to fund security
By Stephen Dinan

Democrats and Republicans who blocked the Senate immigration bill this week say it's now time to focus on immigration law enforcement, and say President Bush should still find a way to pump $4.4 billion he promised into border security.

"There is a consensus that we must secure our borders and enforce our laws. So let's start there," said Sen. Elizabeth Dole, North Carolina Republican; while Sen. Wayne Allard, Colorado Republican, said Congress should "find common-sense solutions to the labor concerns we face in the agriculture industry and start doing what we all know needs to be done — secure the border and enforce our existing laws." ...

Below the fold:

• Failure of Senate Immigration Bill Can Be Lesson for Congress, Experts Say

See also:

• The Difference Between Legal and Illegal Immigrants Is
  Simpler Than the L.A. Times’s Rosa Brooks Realizes
• The immigration bill: What happened?

Failure of Senate Immigration Bill Can Be Lesson for Congress, ...

WASHINGTON, June 29 — Congress can learn important lessons from the demise of the Senate immigration bill, and those lessons should inform future efforts to tackle the issue, experts on immigration said on Friday.

The Senate tried to do too much in one bill, said immigration lawyers, researchers, former government officials and other experts.

Demetrios G. Papademetriou, president of the Migration Policy Institute, a nonprofit research organization, said the bill was “a classic overreach.” ...

Contributed by Bill Faith on June 30, 2007 at 12:52 AM in Immigration | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Friday, 29 June 2007
 

2007.06.29 ¡¡La shamnistía es muerta!! Roundup

See previous: 2007.06.28 "No Illegal Left Behind" Roundup. With a little luck that will be the last of my NILB roundups and I my even start finding some time to blog about other things.

Junior GOP senators defeat old guard
By Stephen Dinan

The immigration-reform bill was supposed to be a defining moment for the old guard.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy could establish a new civil rights legacy to rival his brothers'; Sen. John McCain could show leadership and accomplishment by standing up to his party's base; and President Bush could secure a major domestic achievement for his second term.

Instead, the young guns — a small, wily group of junior Republican senators, most of them with less than a full term in the upper chamber — sent the bill into a tailspin, tying Democratic leaders into legislative knots and earning enough opposition among senators to block the Senate bill, culminating in yesterday's vote to kill the measure. ...

Below the fold:

• Immigration Bill Dies in Senate
• Immigration bill quashed

See also:

• Immigration Reform, for Real
• Video: Beltway Boys rip “nativists,” praise Graham’s “profile in courage”
• Panama City, FL’s simple plan to combat illegal immigration
• Audio: Sen. Jeff Sessions talks up talk radio’s effect on the immigration bill’s demise
• The Will to Build
• "That's not fair! You tricked me!"
• Post favors illegal immigration
• Dafydd ab Hugh: Spin City, Here We Come
• Peggy Noonan: How we become American. 
• Bush May Be Out of Chances For a Lasting Domestic Victory

Immigration Bill Dies in Senate
Bipartisan Compromise Fails To Satisfy the Right or the Left
By Jonathan Weisman, Washington Post Staff Writer

The most dramatic overhaul of the nation's immigration laws in a generation was crushed yesterday in the Senate, with the forces of the political right and left overwhelming a bipartisan compromise on one of the most difficult issues facing the country.

With 53 senators against moving on to a final vote and 46 in favor, supporters fell dramatically short of the 60 votes needed to overcome the delaying tactics and parliamentary maneuvers that have dogged the bill for weeks. With no way to cut off debate, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) pulled the bill from the Senate floor for the second time this month, and this time it is not likely to come up again before a new president comes to power. ...

In truth, opposition to the bill was far more complex than proponents were letting on. In crafting a delicate compromise, the bill's 12 architects created a measure that was reviled by foes of illegal immigration, opposed by most labor unions and unloved by immigration advocates. Opposition came not only from radio hosts such as Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage but also from the American Civil Liberties Union and the AFL-CIO. ...

Immigration bill quashed
By Stephen Dinan

The on-again-off-again immigration bill took a fatal blow yesterday as a majority of senators voted to block it, responding to millions of e-mails, phone calls and faxes from voters furious over a measure they saw as amnesty.

The vote to block the bill was 53-46 — a crushing defeat given that supporters fell 14 votes shy of the 60 needed to limit debate and set an up-or-down vote. It also represents a major loss of support from just two days earlier, when 64 senators had voted to resurrect the bill from its first defeat three weeks ago.

"The message is crystal clear that the American people want us to start with enforcement, both at the border and at the workplace, and don't want promises," said Sen. David Vitter, Louisiana Republican. "They want action, they want results, they want proof because they've heard all the promises before."

It was a devastating defeat for President Bush, who invested a tremendous amount of political capital into immigration reform.

Contributed by Bill Faith on June 29, 2007 at 12:10 AM in Immigration | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Thursday, 28 June 2007
 

2007.06.28 "No Illegal Left Behind" Roundup
-- Special "Clay Pigeon or Dead Duck?" Edition

!!!Yo, Jorge! Up yours! Cloture failed!!!

See previous: 2007.06.27 "No Illegal Left Behind" Roundup

It's make or break time, maybe. If the Masters of the Universe can come up with 60 votes for cloture on the Jorge McKennedy No Illegal Left Behind bill this morning there's no chance of it not receiving the 50 votes it needs for final passage by the end of the week. If they can't, Dirty Harry says the bills finished for good. Just like he said 3 weeks ago. He was lying then and he he may well be again. Regardless of how the vote goes we'll end the day with a damned good list of bogus Republicans to work against in next spring's primaries, or maybe even in next fall's general election if they're running against Blue Dog Dems. Personally I'd rather just hang the sons of bitches with brand new Mexican ropes but I don't guess that's likely to happen.

*** 2007.06.28.09:30:

Michelle Malkin's live blogging the cloture vote here. I may not do anything but read what she writes for a while. *** Ed Morrissey is also live blogging *** 53 votes against!  Road kill! ***

***

Senate immigration bill suffers crushing defeat

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Opponents effectively killed President Bush's long-fought and emotion-laden Senate immigration bill Thursday when members voted against advancing the controversial legislation.

The tally was 46 to 53, 14 votes shy of the 60 needed to end debate.

The president, who visited the Capitol this month to push hard for overhauling the nation's immigration laws, delivered a brief statement shortly after the vote saying he was "sorry" Congress could not reach agreement, calling its "failure to act" a "disappointment." ...

Awww, poor Jorge's disappointed. Well boo frickin' hoo. Cry me a damned river. There are a whole bunch off people who voted for Jorge in the last election who are way past disappointed in the way he's helped try to shove the shamnesty bill down our throats up our asses. Maybe he needs to move south where he'll be among people he cares about.

Below the fold:

• Now What?
• Illegals bill loses support in Senate
• Immigration Measure Appears Imperiled Again

See also:

• God bless immigration
• Bill Quick: The World Turned Upside Down
• Fred Dalton Thompson: A Good Day
• Coleman: I Didn't Trust The Government, Either
• Congressional Will
• Okay, It's Really Dead This Time
• A new attack ad: Meet Senator Switchback
• Wall Street Journal morons wonder: Who’s behind Hot Air’s attack ads?
• Bruce Kesler: Corker Corks It
• Bush facing GOP mutiny over immigration
• Video: “Talk radio has had a field day,” wheezes Reid
• Amnesty Bill Defeated In Senate Vote
• Clay Pigeon = Dead Duck
• Amnesty dies, the Republic survives
• Who Sires The Dead Duck?
• Immigration bill struggling
• New Senators Resist Overhaul of Immigration
• Senate Immigration Reform Bill Takes Step Toward the Grave
• Immigration Stance Is Costly for McCain
• Immigration Bill Is Toast
• Immigration Bill May Not Get Through the Senate
• Immigration Bill Going Nowhere
• Fla. Sheriff Targets Illegals

Now What?

Ed Morrissey

The immigration bill is dead, yet again, after the Senate rejected cloture by fourteen votes. In the end, the compromise could not even gain a majority in support of what conceptually may have been a passable compromise, but in reality was a poorly constructed, poorly processed mass of contradictions and gaps. Many of us who may have supported a comprehensive approach to immigration found ourselves amazed and repulsed by both the product and the process of this attempt to solve the immigration problem.

So what should happen now? The problems of immigration did not disappear with the failure of the cloture vote a few moments ago. Congress needs to act to resolve them -- but they need to do so in a manner that respects the processes of representative democracy, and in a manner that builds the confidence of Americans rather than fuel their cynicism. ...

Illegals bill loses support in Senate
By Stephen Dinan

The Senate immigration bill lost supporters yesterday and hangs on by a thread heading into this morning's showdown vote, after lawmakers voted down amendments making illegal aliens show roots to get legal status and cutting off their path to citizenship.

This morning's vote is on a parliamentary question about limiting debate, but it boils down to a vote to block the bill.

Just two days ago, 64 senators voted to revive the bill, with many saying they wanted to give the Senate a chance to improve the bill through amendments. But after a messy day in the chamber yesterday, with dozens of objections, arguments on the floor and five amendments defeated, at least a half-dozen senators said publicly or privately that their patience has run out. ...

Read the whole thing. Dinan's been providing excellent coverage on the situation all along and if he's predicting the cloture vote will fail I'd say there's a very good chance it will.

Immigration Measure Appears Imperiled Again
Defeat of Amendments Briefly Raised Hopes
By William Branigin and Jonathan Weisman

The Senate yesterday turned back a series of amendments from both parties aimed at substantially altering controversial immigration legislation, but the bill shed supporters as it became mired in procedural hurdles that left backers concerned about its prospects.

The legislation faces a make-or-break vote this morning when senators will decide whether to cut off debate and move to a final vote tomorrow. If it does not get the 60 votes necessary, Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) has said he will pull the bill, all but dashing hopes for any meaningful legislation this year.

Top legislative aides in both parties predicted today's vote would be very close but would fall short of keeping the proposal alive. ...

Contributed by Bill Faith on June 28, 2007 at 12:09 AM in Immigration | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Wednesday, 27 June 2007
 

2007.06.27 "No Illegal Left Behind" Roundup
-- Is the Republican Party even worth saving?

Color this old dog heap highly pissed. I'm going to have to choose my words very carefully lest I end up with Los Federales on my doorstep. I'm not a whole long way from bein' ready to call for armed revolt -- easy enough for me to say since on a good day I can walk almost a quarter of a mile before I have to sit and pant for a few minutes. And that's if I ain't carryin' nothin'. Been hearin' a lot of talk about startin' a third party. Bad idea. Not that I have much use for either of the two existin' major parties, but to go from a standin' start and build up to controllin' enough legislative seats to matter could easily take so long there's nothin' left worth savin' by the time it happens, just Mexico del Norte. Our only realistic hope is to dethrone a bunch of bogus "Republicans" and install real honest to God patriots in their place. "Red Dogs" maybe. (Yeah, I think I like that.) Regardless of whether the Jorge McKennedy shamnesty bill ends up passin' or not, by the end of Thursday we're going to have a damned good list of people who've forgotten how to dance with the people what brung 'em and need a quick trip home. The time to start makin' plans for makin' it happen is Friday morning, if not before.

Senate votes to revive illegal-alien bill
By Stephen Dinan

The Senate voted yesterday to resurrect its immigration bill, overcoming opposition from conservative Republicans and setting up a week of showdown votes on amendments and passage.

The vote was 64-35 to revive the bill, four more than the 60 needed, but many senators said they may change their minds and vote to block the measure in the next key test, scheduled for tomorrow. Overcoming a blockade would again require 60 votes. ...

Even if the bill survives the Senate this week, the House may be a bigger challenge for Mr. Bush, who faces a full-scale revolt in his own party on the issue.

House Republicans voted 114-23 yesterday to pass a resolution disapproving of the Senate bill, a stark move that sends a signal to Mr. Bush, House Democrats and Senate Republicans.

House Minority Leader John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, said he gave a "heads-up" to the White House that the vote was coming and "they weren't happy about it."  ...

"They weren't too happy about it." Aww, cry me a frikkin' river. Those Founding Father dudes had a pretty good idea allocating seats in one house of Congress in proportion to the populations of the various states and giving each state the same number of seats in the other, but it's becoming pretty clear to this ol' dog that they really blew it allowing any congresscritter go more than a couple of years without facing the voters. When they crown me Top Dog that's one of the first things I'll change, right after I ship about 20 million illegal aliens back where they came from.

Cloture Cometh
Ed Morrissey

It looks like the Senate will attempt to pass cloture on the comprehensive and incomprehensible immigration reform package tomorrow morning. Thanks to an unexpected failure to kill an amendment, the cloture vote will most likely come in the morning, perhaps as early as 10:30 am ET: ...

See also:

• Proposals From Both Sides Fail in Immigration Debate
• Buying Amnesty
• Special delivery for Michael Chertoff
• 'Amnesty' fake papers pledged in wiretap
• Video: Sen. Inhofe on the SecureBordersNow petition
• Fox News: Shamnesty collapsing, might be down to 59 votes;
  Update: Talk radio knows the bill better than we do, says Sessions
• Shamnesty on the Senate Floor Redux: Hutchison, Webb, Bond, Dodd amendments killed…Revealed: Enforcement funds could be used for shamnesty…DeMint, Sessions, Vitter, Cornyn shine light on Reid railroad attempts Update: John Ensign needs to hear from you Update: Crikey! Have you heard George Voinovich?! Update: Thune on the floor–”It is not anti-immigrant to be for the rule of law.” Final word/good news: Shamnesty is in trouble Final final word: Sessions sez, “Radio people know more about this bill than most Senators.”
• Audio: Voinovich humiliates himself in shamnesty debate with Hannity
• Earmarks in the Amnesty Bill: Trading Votes for Pork
• What About the House?
  John Hinderaker: All eyes are on the immigration bill that may be working its way through the Senate, but what about the House? It is not clear that any comprehensive immigration reform proposal can clear that body.
• Scott Johnson: Is the fix in on the immigration bill?
• Tancredo sends head of lettuce to Chertoff
• Mexican ambassador: US reform won’t stop illegal immigration
• CQ: Watching The Sausage Being Made From Clay Pigeons
• The Senate Votes for Cloture on the Immigration Bill
• Byrd opposes amnesty
• LA Times: Support for amnesty bill slipping?
  Update: Webb’s amendment fails; Update: Ben Nelson a no on cloture?
• A Lott of outrage

Contributed by Bill Faith on June 27, 2007 at 12:12 AM in Immigration | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Tuesday, 26 June 2007
 

2007.06.26 "No Illegal Left Behind" Roundup

2007.06.26.20.03: I missed a lot of what happened as it developed to spend some time with my grandson, only the second opportunity I've had in over a year, then spent some more time offline due to a storm system rolling through. I'll try to get some links posted soon, then try to do a better job of catching up later.

Just read 'em (The newest entries are at the top):

• Audio: Michelle and Dean Barnett conduct an amnesty autopsy
• Skeet shooting: Full text of shamnesty “clay pigeon” amendment now available;
  Update: Five (or more) cloture votes ready to flip?
• Instapundit wonders, is it third-party time?
  Update: Ace wonders, is it Democrat-donation time?
• Hot Air Video: RNC Refund
• Shamnesty document drop: The “Clay Pigeon” amendment Update: Pounding Reid…and getting your RNC refund Update: House GOP passes anti-amnesty resolution
• Shamnesty on the Senate floor, afternoon edition…Reid invokes 9/11 (gag me)…Where do we go from here?…NRSC feels the heat Latest: Senate in recess. The backroom deal-making resumes!
• Doing What Clay Pigeons Do (Updating Through The Evening)
• I've Had It With Republicans
• Immigration Cloture I: Live Blog (Update: Cloture Passes)
• Cloture succeeds: Where do we go from here?
• Shamnesty on the Senate Floor, Take 2 Plus: Is your senator a Teddy Kennedy Republican? Update: The YouTubed anti-amnesty hits keep coming Update: Session/Cornyn on the floor…report: Coleman to vote yes on cloture…GOP Sens renew press for clean amendment process…Reid begs for GOP votes Update: High noon–shamnesty prevails, 64-35
• Countdown to amnesty; Update: Bush calls bill “amnesty” (sort of); Update: Vote imminent
  (Allahpundit's liveblogging the cloture vote.)
• Border follies: U.S. sorry for building barrier that encroaches on Mexico
• GOP Backers Offer Immigration Bill Change
  Provision Would Require Illegal Residents to Return Home to Gain Legal Status
• When Hot Air attacks: The Love Song of Edward M. Kennedy
• Rough road ahead for immigration bill

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Contributed by Bill Faith on June 26, 2007 at 12:18 AM in Immigration | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Monday, 25 June 2007
 

2007.06.25 "No Illegal Left Behind" Roundup

Muchas gracias, Sen. Graham-nesty
Michelle Malkin

Over the weekend, one of Mickey Kaus’s readers proposed that shamnesty opponents use YouTube to deliver a message to open-borders senators up for re-election. Bryan and I whipped up our first one–a quick, straightforward Hot Air negative ad with Lindsey Graham’s name on it:

Muchas gracias, Señor Graham (click to play): ...

The following 12 senators are leaning against the bill itself but so far are leaning toward the cloture motion — which means, in reality, that they would be helping pass the amnesty, because if the bill comes to a final vote, it will pass. These are the Senators whose decisions will likely determine whether the amnesty passes or not: ...

Below the fold:

• Illegal Immigrants Targeted By States

See also:

• Senators ask Reid for a “free, open, and transparent amendment process”
  –so who’s standing in the way?
• Rasmussen: Likely Voters Likely To Oppose Immigration Compromise
• Kill the Bill — Again
• I repeat: Clear the damn backlogs, first
• Amnesty tomorrow: Five to seven votes needed, 12 still undecided; Update: Webb to vote no?
• Just 22% Favor Stalled Immigration Bill
• States Form The Front Line On Immigration
• States: Immigration Front Line
• Open-borders debacle at the California state GOP
• Sessions: Immigration Compromise Losing Steam
• Immigration bill awaits vote this week
• High-Tech Titans Strike Out on Immigration Bill
• Video: Feinstein “looking at” reviving the Fairness Doctrine
• Sen. Lott's foot-in-the-mouth problem

Illegal Immigrants Targeted By States
Impasse on Hill Spurs New Laws

Frustrated with Congress's inability to pass an immigration overhaul bill, state legislatures are considering or enacting a record number of strongly worded proposals targeting illegal immigrants.

By the time most legislatures adjourned in May, at least 1,100 immigration bills had been submitted by lawmakers, more than double last year's record total, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. This year's total is expected to grow as the issue continues to dominate debate in statehouses still in session.

These laws limit illegal immigrants' ability to obtain jobs, find housing, get driver's licenses and receive many government services. They also empower state law enforcement agencies to inquire into an immigrant's legal status and hold for deportation those deemed to be here illegally. The idea is to make life so difficult for illegal immigrants that they will leave the state -- if not the country. ...

Contributed by Bill Faith on June 25, 2007 at 12:11 AM in Immigration | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Saturday, 23 June 2007
 

Bastante es bastante.

I've linked to this in the past but I'm pretty sure this is the first time it's appeared on this site.

Bastante!
Russ Vaughn

[Spanish to English, bastante adj.: 1. enough  adj.]

We’re with you, George, through thick and thin
We support you still in the mess you’re in,
But enough’s enough and as they say
Bastante! down old Mexico way.
We’re sick of our laws being totally ignored
As our torero, George, you’re getting gored,
Sly foxes laired south of our border
Have reversed the natural feeding order.

This lawlessness on the Rio Grande,
Now threatens us throughout our land,
[Read on.]

Contributed by Bill Faith on June 23, 2007 at 04:31 PM in Immigration, Poetry, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Friday, 22 June 2007
 

Press 1 For English

Boomer thinks you should see this. I sorta like it too:

Contributed by Bill Faith on June 22, 2007 at 01:22 AM in Immigration | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

2007.06.22 "No Illegal Left Behind" Roundup

Email from The Gray Dog:

Hello,

I just signed U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe's online illegal immigration petition, and I'm sharing the link because I think you might be interested in signing, too.

The U.S. Senate will soon be reconsidering the comprehensive immigration reform bill that was defeated earlier this month.  If passed in its current form, the bill will grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants and ignore the most pressing immigration issue: securing our borders.

The petition, "Secure Borders Now," is a website where Americans can unite and voice their support for increased border security by enforcing existing immigration laws and opposition to amnesty for illegal immigrants.  Senator Inhofe has been a leader on the issue of immigration reform and border security, and he's going to use signatures from this petition to help remind his fellow Senators what the American people want.

Will you please take a moment to sign the petition?  Visit www.SecureBordersNow.com

Sincerely,

TGD

I signed the petition yesterday but I didn't give it as much publicity as I should have. Please do some old dogs a favor and go sign it for us.

Below the fold:

• Grassley admits amnesty mistake

See also:

• Immigration stance hurts Graham at home, poll finds
• Video: Immigration lawyers discuss ways to disqualify US workers; find non-US workers
• Bush aides find cure to Congress’s poll woes: Passing shamnesty;
  Update: Cloture vote on Tuesday; Update: Alexander votes no

Grassley admits amnesty mistake
By Stephen Dinan

It's not often a politician admits to making a mistake, but that's exactly what Sen. Charles E. Grassley says he did when he voted for the 1986 amnesty for illegal aliens.

Twenty-one years later he has become one of the most steadfast opponents of amnesty and the strongest critic of the federal government's ability to handle a new legalization program.

"I was fooled once, and history has taught me a valuable lesson. Amnesties just don't work," the Iowa Republican wrote in a letter to his colleagues yesterday,  ...

Contributed by Bill Faith on June 22, 2007 at 12:35 AM in Immigration | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Thursday, 21 June 2007
 

2007.06.21 "No Illegal Left Behind" Roundup

Kay Bailey Hutchinson Is A No
Ed Morrissey

The vote count on immigration reform has drawn plenty of interest from backers and opponents of the compromise bill. The compromise coalition needs only 15 Republican swing votes in order to gain cloture on the latest version of the bill, and the focus has fallen on a narrow band of Republicans that have offered moderate views on immigration in the past.

One of the key Senators in that group is Kay Bailey Hutchinson. Being from Texas, one of the border states most affected by immigration issues, her input on this bill may carry significant weight on the rest of the undecideds. If so, the bill's backers may have a real problem on their hands. A Senate source told me a few minutes ago that Hutchinson intends to vote against cloture, and will have a statement to that effect later today. ...

See also:

• Immigration A Net Plus? Of Course. But...
• Democrat Sen. Claire McCaskill will oppose shamnesty
• Video: McCaskill says she’ll vote no on amnesty cloture
• Audio: Mark Levin thrashes Trent Lott’s long and undistinguished record
• Lott: What we need is an electrified goat fence or something; Update: Pelosi sounds cautious; Update: McConnell wavering? Update: Pat Roberts to vote no on cloture
• Employment Down Among Native Georgians
• Kill the Bill: Call the GOP wafflers and sign the Secure Borders Now petition
• Et tu, Michael Chertoff?
• Senator James Inhofe: Secure Borders Now
  • http://www.securebordersnow.com/ (petition)
• Goat talk with Trent Lott
• Poll says immigrants would heed bill
• Nightmare on Amnesty Street
• Look to Milton
• Security First

Contributed by Bill Faith on June 21, 2007 at 10:22 AM in Immigration | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
 

2007.06.19 "No Illegal Left Behind" Roundup

See previous: 2006.06.18 "No Illegal Left Behind" Roundup

House Republicans introduce immigration bill
The measure, a rebuke to Bush, would bar amnesty for illegal immigrants and require legal-status checks for all workers.

WASHINGTON -- In a sharp rebuke to President Bush, House Republicans today introduced their own immigration reform and border security bill, a tough measure that would bar illegal immigrants from gaining legal status, require employers to check the legal status of all workers and make English the nation's official language.

The Secure Borders First Act stresses operational control over the border as one of its core principles. The bill would reject "amnesty" and insist that the administration do more to enforce existing laws.

The lawmakers behind the bill also introduced a seven-page resolution detailing the myriad ways in which they believe the Bush administration and its predecessors have not only failed to implement immigration laws, but made it easier for illegal immigrants to live and work in the U.S.

"The federal government has lost credibility with the American people on immigration," said Rep. Elton Gallegly (R-Simi Valley), who contributed sections of the bill.

The bill's authors, Reps. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and Peter King (R-N.Y.), cast their bill as a challenge to the immigration legislation the Senate is expected to take up again this week. ...

Below the fold:

• Democrats mull dividing House immigration bill
• Republican candidates begin snubbing Bush

See also:

• WSJ report on "virtual fence" technology leaves a few questions
• Senator Sessions on Immigration Bill
• Security first, No amnesty
• Kennedy: Immigration Reform Critical to National Security ~ HUH??
• Lighting the fires Americans won’t light
• House Dems to push enforcement-first immigration bill?
  Update: House GOP introduces Secure Borders First Act
• Setting the Record Straight: Illegal Immigrants Will Receive Welfare Under Senate Bill
• Immigration horse-trading
• Illegals light border fires to sidetrack U.S. agents
• Despite Bush’s Promises, Georgians Remain Skeptical About Immigration Bill

Republican candidates begin snubbing Bush
By: David Paul Kuhn and Jonathan Martin 

A president with dismal approval ratings and a bitter intraparty rupture over immigration are obvious problems for Republican politicians.

In recent days, however, the combination is emerging as something less obvious: an opportunity.

Recent polls have shown Bush's popularity -- which has long been in the tank with independents -- suffering significant erosion even among GOP base voters, largely due to a backlash over the president's stance on immigration.

The decline, according to some Republican strategists, has flashed a green light for lawmakers on Capitol Hill and presidential candidates to put distance between themselves and an unpopular president -- a politically essential maneuver for the 2008 general election that remained risky as long as Bush retained the sympathies of Republican stalwarts.

Now that those sympathies have somewhat cooled, the effects are visible: Republican House members upset about immigration policy have spoken of Bush in disparaging terms. And presidential contenders like Rudy Giuliani are striking change-the-course themes in their rhetoric, even while continuing to back Bush over the Iraq war. ...

Democrats mull dividing House immigration bill 
By Brian DeBose and Stephen Dinan

House Democrats say they may break the immigration issue up into a series of smaller bills that would put off the tougher parts and allow others to pass, such as border security, and high-tech and agriculture worker programs that have clear support.

That could buy Democrats more time to work out the tougher aspects of immigration, such as what to do about the estimated 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens now here, but it would go against the Senate's massive catchall approach and contradicts President Bush's call for a broad bill to pass. ...

Both Democrats and Republicans in the House say no decisions have been made and both sides are waiting to see what happens in the Senate's off-again-on-again immigration debate.

In the Senate, Democrats took the first step to revive the debate yesterday, introducing a new bill that compiles all of the Senate's action over the past few weeks. The move is designed to overcome some of the procedural hurdles opponents are expected to erect.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, says he is committed to getting a "comprehensive" bill done before releasing the Senate for its Fourth of July vacation, and he has the support of top Republican leaders.

In the House, though, Republicans are more uniformly opposed, and many vulnerable freshman Democrats could be hurt by a bill labeled "amnesty." That leaves Democratic leaders trying to see what they can pass. ...

Ed Morrissey asks "If the House can figure out a way to effectively tackle immigration one step at a time, why can't the Senate?" after providing the answer earlier in his post: Every House member is up for reelection next fall while only about a third of the Senate is. Maybe there's hope here yet.

Allahpundit has more.

Contributed by Bill Faith on June 19, 2007 at 12:39 AM in Immigration | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Sunday, 17 June 2007
 

2006.06.15-17 "No Illegal Left Behind" Roundup

(Updated and bumped, twice. Original timestamp 2007.06.15.11:04.)

See previous: 2006.06.14 "No Illegal Left Behind" Roundup

Immigration bill is a fraud
Mark Steyn  (Hat tip: Tom Blumer )

I forget where I was when I first heard the phrase ''undocumented worker.'' Possibly it was after swimming the Rio Grande and emerging dripping on the northern shore to be handed a fake Social Security number and a driver's license. But I assumed, reasonably enough, that this linguistic sleight of hand was simply too ridiculous to fly even with the American media. I underestimated my colleagues, alas.

The ''undocumented'' are, as it happens, brimming with sufficient documents to open bank accounts or, on the other hand, rent a Ryder truck, as Mohammad Salameh did in 1993 when he and his pals bombed the World Trade Center first time round. Being ''undocumented'' means being documented up to the hilt as far as everyone else is concerned but ''undocumented'' only to the U.S. government. Which, when you think about it, is a very advantageous status to have. ...

Below the fold:

• Memo to Washington: Clear the damn backlogs first
• Conservative bloggers in full revolt over immigration
• Immigration bill offers a military path to US dream
• Immigration Bill Resurrected
• Kill the Bill, Part Deux: Redouble your efforts ...

See also:

• Report: Stirrings in South Carolina to dump histrionic McCain crony
• The Wall Street Journal's "Rising Anti-Immigrant Sentiment"
• Why Keep The Database Secret?
• Passport Incompetence to the Slaughter
• Shamnesty: Reid to block bill opponents with unprecedented procedure?
• A strike against Sanctuary Nation
• Is There An Immigration Deal?
• House passes Tancredo measure to deny emergency funds to sanctuary cities!
• www.trentlott.com (H/T: Surber)
• Charles Krauthammer: Fence Me In
• David Frum: Confidence Builder?
• Bush: Teddy Kennedy Has "Corazon Grande"
• Reading Jon Kyl: Leadership=Licking Teddy Kennedy's boots

Memo to Washington: Clear the damn backlogs first
Michelle Malkin

Over the last several years, I've noted the following immigration backlogs that continue to plague our homeland security system:

*The backlog of 600,000-plus fugitive deportee cases.

*The backlog of 4 million immigration applications of all kinds.

*The backlog of an estimated 100,000 FBI background checks for legal immigrant applicants.

*The disappearance of 111,000 citizenship applications.

The Washington Post reports today that those mounds of unprocessed paperwork continue to grow. Hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came here legally are waiting for FBI background checks that must be obtained before they can become naturalized:

Since 2005, the backlog of legal U.S. immigrants whose applications for naturalization and other benefits are stuck on hold awaiting FBI name checks has doubled to 329,160...

That's right. The FBI name check backlog stands at nearly 330,000 cases. ...

Conservative bloggers in full revolt over immigration
By Peter Hamby, CNN Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Different conservative blogs have different pet issues -- government transparency, federal judges, Fred Thompson, to name a few.

But no issue in recent memory has united conservative bloggers like the debate over immigration. Their frustration has culminated in a full-scale revolt against the Bush administration and a Senate bill that activists say does little to solve the country's border security problems.

President Bush's pledge to support $4.4 billion in additional border security funds has breathed new life into the bill, but the drumbeat against the legislation shows no signs of quieting.

It's increasingly clear from Web postings and interviews with top conservative bloggers that the immigration bill has done serious damage to the president's credibility among the conservative netroots, the grassroots bloggers on the Web.

Erick Erickson, managing editor of the popular conservative blog RedState.com, says he receives between 800 and 900 e-mails a day from readers, most of whom are "enraged" by the White House's immigration efforts.

"Of all the issues the president has picked to make his hill to die on, he has picked the one that has divided his base," said Erickson, who lives in Macon, Georgia. "I am shocked by the anger and outrage out there ... You've got war against the president within the Republican party." ...

Read the whole thing. Pretty amazing for CNN, actually. Other than using the word "immigration" a few places where it should say "illegal immigration" they've pretty much described the situation accurately.

Ed Morrissey comments here.   

Immigration bill offers a military path to US dream
By Bryan Bender (Hat tip: Jay Tea)

WASHINGTON -- A little-noticed provision in the proposed immigration bill would grant instant legal status and ultimately full citizenship to illegal immigrants if they enlist in the US military, an idea the Pentagon and military analysts say would boost the Pentagon's flagging efforts to find and recruit qualified soldiers.

The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act, or DREAM Act, is part of the stalled package of proposals that many in Congress are seeking to resurrect. The proposal, applicable to an estimated 750,000 undocumented residents of military age, stipulates that those who arrived in the United States before age 16, graduated from high school, and meet other qualifications could immediately enter the path to citizenship in exchange for at least two years' service in the armed forces.

Though the overall immigration bill was sidetracked earlier this month amid bitter infighting, the prospect of using military service as one pathway to citizenship appeals both to lawmakers who side with immigration rights advocates and those who want tougher immigration laws and tighter borders. ...

Not exactly a new idea -- see Russ Vaughn's post here and my response here -- but if it's a good idea why does it need to be tied to a general amnesty?  Why not just introduce the idea as a separate bill?

Immigration Bill Resurrected
Ed Morrissey

It's baaaa-aaaaack. The immigration bill will return to the Senate floor next week after a a flurry of deals between Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, and the White House reinvigorated the compromise. Each party will get eleven amendments, and the White House has agreed to spend over $4 billion immediately to secure the border:

Senate leaders agreed Thursday to a list of amendments to be considered, clearing the way for debate to resume. The decision followed President Bush's announcement that he supports a move to immediately set aside more than $4 billion to beef up enforcement of immigration laws.

The two actions significantly improve the chances that the Senate will pass the comprehensive bill, which would provide a path to citizenship for many of the nation's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants. "We believe that there are enough votes," White House spokesman Tony Snow said Thursday. ...

Snow suggested that the president and other backers of the bill wanted the funding to be a part of the immigration package, not a separate measure. "All the pieces have to work together," he said. "If you disaggregate, things fall apart."

Excuse me, but that's simply not true. Border security should have already been addressed, as well as significant improvements in the visa management system. In fact, Congress has already passed mandates on both subjects. Last year, legislation authorized 854 miles of double-fence barriers on the southern border, and Congress had earlier demanded that the visa system get replaced or fixed by 2005 so that visa holders could be tracked and found if they overstayed.

Why should anyone trust this bill to address those issues when neither Congress nor the executive branch has complied with the earlier legislation?

Kill the Bill, Part Deux: Redouble your efforts
Lott blames "talk radio," threatens GOP dissenters
Bush speaks at National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast
Kennedy and Mel Martinez laugh it up
Michelle Malkin

Military-smearing Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell released this statement about the shamnesty last night:

Thursday, June 14, 2007

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following statement today:

“We met this evening with several of the Senators involved in the immigration bill negotiations. Based on that discussion, the immigration bill will return to the Senate floor after completion of the energy bill.”

Here's more on the agreement reached yesterday--and Sen. Trent Lott whining like a nutroots-er about "talk radio:" ...

Contributed by Bill Faith on June 17, 2007 at 01:14 PM in Immigration | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Thursday, 14 June 2007
 

2006.06.14 "No Illegal Left Behind" Roundup

See previous: 2006.06.13 "No Illegal Left Behind" Roundup

Today's must-reads:

• Who is Illiberal on Immigration?
• The Inside Story On What's Happening With The Senate Immigration Bill

Bush: How about $4.4 billion for border? 
By Jon Ward and Stephen Dinan

President Bush this morning proposed spending $4.4 billion on border security as the first step in a comprehensive immigration reform bill, in the White House's latest effort to resurrect the bill that failed last week.

"We're going to show the American people that the promises in this bill will be kept," Mr. Bush said, in a speech to a meeting of the Associated Builders and Contractors.

Mr. Bush said he understands that "Americans are skeptical about immigration reform," saying that an attempt at immigration reform in 1986 "failed."

The White House has acknowledged this week that the bill, which stalled last week and was pulled off the Senate floor, failed in part because there is massive grass-roots skepticism about the government's sincerity and ability to secure the border.

"The American people want a demonstration that we can actually do it," said White House spokesman Tony Snow. ...

As I said when I first got wind of this idea a couple of days ago:

The main problem with the latest idea is that no matter how much money Congress allocates for a border fence and other enforcement enhancements it still falls to the Executive branch to actually spend it.

Michelle Malkin calls it The $4.4 billion grand ruse. See also: Kill the Bill: Amnesty waffles, anyone?

Below the fold:

• Majority Leader Reid Close to Reviving Senate Immigration Bill
• Groups unite against 'amnesty'
• Senators Work to Revive Immigration Bill

See also:

• Illegration
• DeMint to Grand Schemers: Prove it; Laura Ingraham: Save your country now
• Memo to Meese: Work Verification is the Real Fence

Majority Leader Reid Close to Reviving Senate Immigration Bill

WASHINGTON —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will approve a new deal on immigration on Thursday and move to bring the once-dead legislation back to the Senate floor next week, Democratic sources told FOX News.

Details of the immigration compromise remain to be finalized, but top Democratic sources say Reid has closely monitored the behind-the-scenes dickering over policy changes and a finite list of amendments due for consideration. Based on the latest updates on the policy and amendments, Reid will approve the compromise and move late Thursday to put the bill back on the calendar for Senate consideration in the middle of next week.

"He's going to bless it and he's going to get the Senate back in the business of dealing with immigration," said a source in the Democratic Senate leadership.

The principal change to the bipartisan immigration compromise that Reid shelved last week is the addition of $4.4 billion in added border security spending. That money will be added to the base bill to return to the floor. Any other changes to the immigration bill will have to be made through the amendment process. ...

Michelle Malkin comments here.

Groups unite against 'amnesty'
By Ralph Z. Hallow

The debate over President Bush's immigration bill and opposition to it as an "amnesty" proposal have invigorated otherwise dispirited conservative interest groups and forged an anti-Bush unity on the right not seen since the Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers.

Hopeful signs have materialized for conservative leaders who have opposed the drive by the president, top Senate Republicans and leading Democrats to give legal status to illegal aliens while giving what critics deride as lip service to border security. ...

Senators Work to Revive Immigration Bill

WASHINGTON (AP) - 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.

The mandatory security funding is part of a plan to attract more Republican support for the measure, which grants legal status to millions of unlawful immigrants.

In private meetings Wednesday, the bipartisan group that crafted the delicate compromise was hammering out a plan to allow votes on a limited set of Republican- and Democratic-sought changes in exchange for a commitment from GOP holdouts that they will back moving ahead with the bill.

Republican architects of the measure, which grants legal status to millions of unlawful immigrants, expressed confidence that such an agreement was possible as early as Thursday. ...

Contributed by Bill Faith on June 14, 2007 at 12:45 AM in Immigration | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Wednesday, 13 June 2007
 

2006.06.13 "No Illegal Left Behind" Roundup

See previous: 2006.06.12 "No Illegal Left Behind" Roundup

Below the fold:

• Poll: Voters Want Smaller Steps to Immigration Reform With Focus on Enforcement
• Bush lobbies Senate on immigration
• Immigration fantasy land

See also:

• Illegal alien advocates on the march
• Jihad Watch: Immigration & Jihad (H/T)
• Just stealing the IDs no one else will steal
• Fred Barnes: Immigration Influence
• Keeping the bad guys out
• W as in wimp
• VRWC to GOP: Drop dead
• Don’t just show us the money, show us the enforcement.
• A message for the RNC
• Bush Lobbies G.O.P. Senators on Immigration
• Welcome to the deportation abyss

Poll: Voters Want Smaller Steps to
Immigration Reform With Focus on Enforcement

Just 20% of American voters want Congress to try and pass the immigration reform bill that failed in the Senate last week. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 51% would like their legislators to “take smaller steps towards reform” while 16% believe they should wait until next year. The survey was conducted on Monday and Tuesday night as the President was publicly attempting to rally support for the legislation. ...

Bush lobbies Senate on immigration
By Stephen Dinan

President Bush visited with Senate Republicans behind closed doors yesterday, promising that he will follow through on border security, pleading with them to give his immigration plans a second look and trying to overcome hard feelings that arose from his recent charge that opponents are guilty of trying to "frighten people."

"We've got to convince the American people that this bill is the best way to enforce our border," Mr. Bush said after an hourlong lunch with the senators. "I believe without the bill that it's going to be harder to enforce the border."

The bill is stalled for now, the victim of a collapse last week, and Democrats say Mr. Bush must prove that he can deliver 20 votes in support of the bill before they will put it back on the schedule. Mr. Bush is struggling to win those votes and has come under fire from Republicans who say he must first do more to prove he is serious about enforcement.

One idea that seemed to gain immediate traction among the Republicans was for Mr. Bush to send up a new emergency-spending bill to fund border security.

"If we're really going to get support for this bill from the American people there's got to be some restoration of trust," said Sen. Saxby Chambliss, Georgia Republican,  ...

Immigration fantasy land
Today's Washington Times Editorial

President Bush seems to have learned all the wrong lessons from the collapse last week of the Senate immigration bill. Instead of going back to the drawing board and coming up with an immigration bill that actually improves border security, the president went to Capitol Hill yesterday in an effort to revive the "compromise" pushed by Sens. Edward Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, and Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican. To get an idea of how surreal immigration politics have become on Capitol Hill, Mr. Bush has been receiving and acting upon some unsolicited political advice from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ( whose poll numbers are even lower than the president's).

On Monday, Mr. Bush received his marching orders from Mr. Reid: ...

Contributed by Bill Faith on June 13, 2007 at 12:10 AM in Immigration | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Tuesday, 12 June 2007
 

2006.06.12 "No Illegal Left Behind" Roundup

See previous: 2006.06.11 "No Illegal Left Behind" Roundup

I'm beginning to be a lot more optimistic than I was that maybe the piece of shit immigration "reform" bill really is dead for good. My read is that Dirty Harry wants it to fail so he can blame the failure on George Bush. I'm pissed enough at Bush for wanting it to pass that that suits the hell out of me.  Maybe next year the Republican Party will actually manage to nominate someone with an IQ above room temperature. (I've never doubted for a minute that W's heart is in the right place. It's his head that's up his ass.)

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Did I get my hopes up too soon? On first read this doesn't sound all that bad ... on first read.

Senate Republicans Work $4.4 Billion Border Security Amendment

WASHINGTON —  GOP negotiators of an immigration reform bill are crafting a large border security amendment with mandatory, immediate funding that they hope will assuage concerns of both Republicans and Democrats, FOX News has learned.

The senators are looking at a way to please conservatives who are skeptical Congress will ever fund the bill's border security provisions, as well as keep Democratic negotiators on board in a last ditch effort to save the comprehensive reform bill. ...

Visa overstays will become a crime under the Graham-Kyl-Martinez amendment, and repeat offenders would face mandatory jail time, deportation, and a ban from ever re-entering the U.S. It is unclear what Democratic negotiators like Sen. Edward Kennedy will do. He has not supported this kind of stiff penalty in the past.

Graham would also forever bar employers from participating in the guest worker program if they have violated immigration laws repeatedly.  ...

I won't like it but I could live with an amnesty for the illegals already in the country in return for actually doing something to keep more from coming in. The main problem with the latest idea is that no matter how much money Congress allocates for a border fence and other enforcement enhancements it still falls to the Executive branch to actually spend it. If they could actually pass a bill that allocated money for a fence and requires that the fence actually be in place before they start handing out amnesties I could almost support it. Let's just put it in different terms. If they can sell Jeff Sessions they can sell me, but only if.

Below the fold:

• Bush changes few minds on immigration overhaul 
• Kill the Bill, Round 2
• Kill the Bill: Exposing the dirty deal
  -- Update- Senators to Bush: Enforce the laws first
• Kill the Bill: What's going on behind closed doors?
• R