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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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): *** Here again, via [...]

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 [...]

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 GOP [...]

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 [...]

Deadly consequences of open borders, part 998,999.

Actions have consequences. Plus: Lindsey Grah-amnesty’s latest hissy fit.

Pile-on.

There was a glimmer of hope on the shamnesty landscape today in the House. Stalwart immigration enforcement proponent Tom Tancredo won approval–by a significant margin–of his amendment banning DHS funds for renegade sanctuary cities. From Rep. Tancredo’s website: U.S. Representative Tom Tancredo’s (R-CO) amendment to cut funding from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Bill [...]

Time to Move On, Trent.

Teddy’s new best friends.

Photoshop: David Lunde 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 [...]

Are you paying attention? (Hat tip: Allah) 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 [...]

Yes, we still have a voice in Washington. Sen. Jim DeMint’s statement on the $4.4 billion Grand Ruse: “I appreciate the effort to fund border security, but there’s simply no reason why we should be forced to tie amnesty to it. If the administration was serious about fulfilling the border security promises, then this funding [...]

WashTimes reports that President Bush will offer his amnesty “confidence-builder” in a speech this morning: President Bush will state in a speech this morning that he supports an amendment to the immigration reform bill that would immediately spend $4.4 billion on border security, in the White House’s latest effort to resurrect the bill that failed [...]

It’s what’s for breakfast this morning in Washington: On Tuesday, I mentioned the list of 15 GOP senators that the Shamnesty Grand Schemers want to flip to their side (asterisked senators are up for re-election in 2008): * Alexander (R-TN) Bennett (R-UT) * Cochran (R-MS) * Coleman (R-MN) * Collins (R-ME) * Cornyn (R-TX) * [...]

Eduardo “Piolin” Sotelo, a leader who organized the massive illegal alien marches in Los Angeles last year, is headed back to Washington to push for shamnesty. He’s due to arrive tomorrow with his open-borders caravan: A popular Spanish-language disc jockey began a cross-country trip Sunday to encourage Congress to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws, planning [...]