La Shawn Barber deconstructs the White House/open-borders lobby's "euphemism-loaded tripe."

Mark Krikorian pillories Sens. Craig and Kennedy.

The Modesto Bee reports: Guest-worker bill seems doomed to defeat

510pm update via Krikorian:

Sen. Craig's huge amnesty for illegal-alien farmworkers didn't get enough votes to proceed today, so the Senate will almost certainly pass the Iraq emergency funding bill without it. This sets the stage for another game of chicken between the House and Senate conferees, as we saw last fall over the intelligence reform bill, over the House's REAL ID bill provisions (which would set minimum standards for state driver's licenses), which the anti-enforcement elements in the Senate dislike.

And from AP:

The Senate balked Tuesday at using an Iraq-Afghanistan aid bill to make it possible for immigrant farmworkers to win permanent or temporary legal status.

The lawmakers quickly dispensed with two competing agricultural worker measures but left open the possibility of granting more temporary visas to foreign crab pickers and oyster shuckers needed by seafood operations along the East Coast.

A 53-45 vote indicated support for a measure offered by Sens. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, and Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., offering permanent residency to certain immigrant workers. Craig and Kennedy, however, needed 60 votes to prevent opponents from blocking their measure.

A counterproposal to provide temporary legal status to illegal immigrants as long as U.S. employers have use for them won the support of only 21 senators; 77 opposed it.

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