Archive » Amnesty

Reader T.K. e-mails: Several months ago, when rumblings of a possible amnesty for illegal immigrants supported by President Bush and the GOP started to hit the blogosphere, I held back from sending in a check to renew my 2007 RNC membership, instead sending in a note that I would not financially support the party if [...]

You can say that again: “We . . . have lost credibility in Washington on the issue, and I think before the American people will really ever get behind an immigration policy, they’re going to have to feel that Washington is truly going to follow through on what it says,” said Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.). [...]

So, Bush had his meeting with Senate Republicans. He says “the status quo is unacceptable.” Yeah, tell me about it. So, now what? The backdoor wrangling continues. Congress Daily reports: …Senate Republican negotiators were close to agreeing on the number of amendments they want to bring up and could present that list to Reid as [...]

Just received from a Hill source: *** Out-of-touch-with-reality quote of the morning: “I think one of the things that we have to do is answer the skeptics, answer the doubters,” White House press secretary Tony Snow said Tuesday. “We not only have a good sound bill, but it’s also one that a lot of conservatives, [...]

Photoshop: David Lunde President Bush heads to Capitol Hill today to try to revive S.1348, the shamnesty bill. He’s getting cocky: President Bush, wading deeper into an issue that bitterly divides his party, hopes a personal appeal can help persuade skeptical Republicans to resurrect and pass his immigration bill. Over lunch Tuesday in the Capitol, [...]

The corpse of S. 1348 is twitching. Remember: I pronounced it “down but not quite dead” after the cloture vote last Thursday. Now, Bush-Reid-Kennedy will be working overtime the next few days to prop it back up on the Senate floor, reports the NYTimes: Senate Democrats opened the door to reviving the stalled immigration measure [...]

Kathryn Lopez diagnoses the disease.

Photoshop: David Lunde *** Wire stories coming in: AP calls the cloture vote failure a “stunning setback.” Reuters: “A major legislative setback.” Bloomberg: “A big disappointment.” A few of my quick post-debate thoughts: As annoying as Reid’s refrain was, he is right: This was the president’s bill. This was the monstrous sham that President Bush [...]

6:13pm Eastern update: Scroll for latest liveblogging on Senate floor action (and inaction): I liveblogged the vote on the Coburn amendment earlier this morning. The roll call deserves its own separate post. I’ve underlined the Republicans who voted against the Coburn amendment to fully enforce existing immigration laws. Everything you need to know about your [...]

Just to make clear, because it was a bit confusing, the two cloture votes that went down were these: Question: On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Kennedy Amdt. No. 1150, As Amended ) Vote Number: 203 Vote Date: June 7, 2007, 11:41 AM Required For Majority: 3/5 Vote Result: Cloture Motion [...]

Update: 12:40am Senate adjourned until 10am…Reid has called for a vote later today on a motion to limit debate to 30 additional hours…It’s the “moment of truth” now…Sen. Jeff Sessions, who has been an eloquent and stalwart amnesty opponent, says tonight: “I think enthusiasm is waning for the legislation…” Chicago Tribune says Dorgan amendment “may [...]

Knowledge is power. Here are the Senators who voted against the Cornyn amendment , which as I noted this morning, would have established a permanent bar for gang members, terrorists, and other criminals looking to snag a shamnesty visa. Republicans highlighted in red: Update: A reader called Sen. Coburn’s office to ask about why he [...]

Debate has resumed this morning on the Senate floor over S.1348, the shamnesty bill. Numbers USA gives a preview: [O]ne amendment that could inflict a severe blow to the already fractious coalition supporting the so-called “Grand Bargain” will be debated and probably voted upon. Although the amendment simply expands the list of crimes making illegal [...]

Scroll for updates, liveblogging… Debate on S. 1348, the shamnesty bill, has resumed on the Senate floor. Numbers USA sums up the upcoming action: Members will consider an amendment sponsored by Sen. Wayne Allard (R-Colo.) that would ensure that green card applicants who entered the country illegally are not given preference under a merit-based processing [...]

Just read this. The Republican Party’s condescension and contempt for the base rots from the head down. Brilliant strategery there, GOP. Brilliant. More: Peggy Noonan on the fatal consequences of Bush administration contempt: Why would they speak so insultingly, with such hostility, of opponents who are concerned citizens? And often, though not exclusively, concerned conservatives? [...]

The WSJ accepts National Review’s invitation to debate amnesty. Looks like Bill Bennett will moderate. Yesterday: A National Review invitation to the WSJ

Donations to the RNC have dropped off 40 percent, due to anger over Beltway elite open-borders policies, reports the WashTimes. Brilliant, Karl Rove! Keep insulting your base and maybe donations will drop by half by the end of the weekend. Genius.

Satirist Frank J. writes up shamnesty talking points from the White House and Wall Street Journal. They are such parodies of themselves already, but Frank J. pulls it off. Meanwhile, several Arizona readers have sent a link to this piece on the spillover of Mexican drug cartel- and human trafficking-related violence onto American soil. War [...]

Peachy: A Milwaukee police officer was arrested Wednesday by federal immigration agents on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant who assumed the identity of his dead cousin a decade ago, officials said. The officer, who has lived and worked under the name Jose A. Morales since he was a teenager, was arrested by agents with [...]

The Founding Fathers: They meant what they wrote President Bush attacked immigration enforcement proponents for engaging in “empty political rhetoric”–and the NYTimes was all too happy to report on it: President Bush today accused opponents of his proposed immigration measure of fear-mongering to defeat it in Congress, and took on his own conservative political base [...]

Just click: Brought to you by Sout al-Kuffar@The Jawa Report. Pass it on. Send it to the White House. And tell ‘em to stop insulting the intelligence and integrity of those opposed to repeating another shamnesty disaster.

If you are having trouble getting through the Capitol switchboard to express your opinion about the Bush-Kennedy shamnesty, there’s a special hotline number you might like to try. 1-800-882-2005. (Spanish number) 1-800-417-7666. (English number) Freepers picked up on it this morning. Bryan Preston dialed it earlier today and captured audio of the hotline. He reports: [...]

Shame, shame, shame: Proponents today narrowly defeated an amendment that would have ended the bill’s temporary worker program after five years. The measure was defeated 49 to 48, the narrow margin secured when Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) changed his vote at the last minute after an entreaty from Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), the bill’s [...]

Glad to know there are Republicans still out there who haven’t been infected with the “Ted Kennedy is awesome” virus: Key House Leaders will hold a press conference on this afternoon to highlight their opposition to the Senate’s amnesty proposal which would allow 12-20 million illegal immigrants to stay in the United States and be [...]

Chock full of enforcement tricks and illegal alien treats John Boehner called the Bush-Kennedy immigration bill a “piece of s**t” last night. Yeah, after sifting through it the past couple of days, I need a shower. Debate resumed in the Senate this morning. Yesterday, an amendment sponsored by Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) that would have [...]

7:35pm Eastern update: Here’s the cloture vote. I’ll be guest-hosting The O’Reilly Factor tonight and tomorrow night. We’ll be covering the immigration debate wall-to-wall. Catch the show at 8pm Eastern. *** Here’s your lunchtime blood-boiler: Video of the Michael Chertoff comment I mentioned this morning. MICHAEL CHERTOFF, HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY: You know, Wolf, first, I [...]

11:05am 5/21 update: Dean Barnett’s read on shamnesty politics… [T]he Democrats will skate free for doing something that’s so contrary to the wishes of their base. That’s the benefit of being a party that really only cares about hating its opposition. As Markos Moulitsas has repeatedly pointed out, even the Democrats’ most enthusiastic supporters aren’t [...]

So, open-borders sellout John McCain cursed out Sen. John Cornyn. Yawn. I didn’t get all worked up about it. You know why? Because when it comes to “F**k yous!,” no obscene utterance compares to the George W. Bush-backed, RNC-backed, Kennedy-conspired, fantasy-based amnesty profanity unleashed on conservatives and the country. Message:

Republicans in Washington who are embracing the Bush-Kennedy amnesty will tell you the package is tough on enforcement because the millions of illegal aliens who are here now will be deported later if they fail to meet the requirements of their so-called “Z visas.” Here is how the clueless Republican National Committee is selling it: [...]

Kathryn Lopez chronicles The Right Revolt. *** N.Z. Bear sends a photo of the current, 400-page amnesty bill draft getting passed around Senate offices. It’ll double before the weekend’s over. That’s the Bible on the left for comparison. Update from a Hill source: Daily Whip Notice Friday, May 18, 2007 09:00 AM – Friday, May [...]