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It’s baaaaaack.

Start asking. Start telling.

Update: Rudy-come-lately, Rudy the Flip-Flopper.
Update: So, what does Michael Chertoff plan to do about this? Chicago Tribune:
Elvira Arellano, the illegal Mexican immigrant who has avoided deportation for a year by taking refuge inside a Humboldt Park church, plans to leave her sanctuary next month to participate in an immigration march in Washington, according to today’s [...]

Update - related note: Lots of folks are asking about the accused killer in the Newark execution-style murders of four young students. Yes, he’s here illegally according to media and law enforcement officials and he just pleaded not guilty this morning. More: “Carranza, who spoke through an interpreter, admitted he was not a U.S. citizen [...]

“Local GOP committee votes to censure after senator’s immigration bill support.”

“We must fight all for one and one for all, or we lose the moral authority to fight for anybody.”

Next time, turn the sarcasm off.

“Out of the shadows.”

The shamnesty backlash begins.

Smile, Sen. Switchback. You’re on YouTube! Plus: The open-borders Wall Street Journal puts on a tinfoil hat. Update: The WSJ gets a bloggy ribbing and takes off its tinfoil hat.

9:30pm Eastern update. The venerable economist George Borjas weighs in on his blog with a sober and sobering assessment:
The President bet all his remaining political capital on a proposal he knew would tear his party apart. And the Senate came close to enacting very bad policy. It really makes me wonder: what the heck were [...]

Let them eat lettuce! Update: DHS refuses Tancredo’s lettuce for “security reasons.” Seriously.

Fight, fight, fight! The battle continues. There’s heated debate right now on the Senate floor over the throat-ramming process embraced by Reid/Bush/GOP Grand Schemers. Noon update: vote underway on Hutchison “touchback” amendment. Update: Hutchison amendment killed. Plus: Video added of DeMint trying to keep the debate open.

10:43pm Eastern. Here’s an easy-to-use, interactive video phone guide to the shamnesty senators who voted YEA on cloture today.
10:15pm Eastern update. A reader wants to know whether the Georgia Republican Senators’ amendments are in the clay pigeon package. Yes, they are there. But remember to take all this amendment talk with a grain of salt. [...]

4:37pm Eastern. Here’s what I’m hearing from several Hill sources…
The so-called “Clay Pigeon” amendment, 300-plus pages, is still being drafted. Reviewing it will be impossible. No one has read it through. Thank your Senate GOP leadership for that. The amendment buyoffs are frantically underway. Rumors that the amendment is being re-drafted to include a deal [...]

The roll (red underline indicates the ship-jumpers):

Final vote: Shamnesty prevails, 64-35. Recess ’til 2:15pm. Will the “clay pigeon fly?” Stay tuned.
The 17 ship-jumpers who went from anti-shamnesty to pro-shamnesty:
Dems Bingaman, Boxer, Webb
Repubs Bennett, Bond, Burr, Coleman, Collins, Domenici, Ensign, Gregg, Lott, McConnell, Murkowski, Snowe, Stevens, Warner
One switcher from pro-amnesty to anti-amnesty: Stabenow (D)
One fence-sitter [...]

The mother of 2-year-old Alex Tsuji, killed by an illegal alien drunk driver, speaks out.

Today, five GOP senators appealed to Harry Reid not to use a cherry-picking amendment trick and cut off debate on the Bush-Kennedy shamnesty bill. Here’s their letter:

Wanna know what Reid’s response was? Stay tuned. This entire process has stunk to high heaven from the get-go. No matter what happens on the Senate floor tomorrow on [...]

You can’t make this stuff up: “Part of a vehicle barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border was erected in the wrong country and soon will be removed and rebuilt on American soil, federal officials confirmed Monday.”

The Washington way: Screw up, move up.

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):

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Here again, via NRO, are the [...]

What a freaking mess:
Michael Kamburowski, an Australian immigrant who served as the California Republican Party’s chief operating officer, abruptly resigned Sunday — less than 24 hours after The Chronicle reported he had been ordered deported in 2001, jailed in connection with the order, and now has a $5 million wrongful arrest lawsuit pending against U.S. [...]

Sen. Open Borders serenades illegal alien activists. Cover your ears!

Claire on cloture: “I’ll vote against it.”

S. 1639, the Bush-Kennedy shamnesty bill, will hit the Senate floor soon. US News reports there will be slight delay until the beginning of next week because of energy bill infighting. But make no mistake: Shamnesty’s coming. And it’s time to hit the phones. According to Numbers USA, the following members are the crucial [...]

Name-calling Michael Chertoff decries name-calling by exclamation point-wielding bloggers.

Another illegal alien drunk driver takes the lives Americans didn’t take.

9/11 families protest the Bush-Kennedy bill. Plus: The Heritage Foundation exposes the secrets of the new proposal and spotlights its security-sabotaging implications.

***Update 9:25pm Eastern:*** The Grand Schemers have settled on amendments to the shamnesty bill in a bid to win over the wafflers:
Sixteen of the two dozen amendments the Senate will consider attaching to a revived immigration bill come from senators who helped derail the legislation earlier this month. A list of the proposed changes obtained [...]

Deadly consequences of open borders, part 998,999.