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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.).
Meanwhile, the [...]

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, Bush planned an [...]

Are you aware that deportable aliens can circumvent immigration laws with the help of your member of Congress? Are you aware that more than 50 bills have been introduced in Congress this year that would grant special, private relief to individual immigrants fighting deportation? It’s instant amnesty through special legislation. And it’s been happening for [...]

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 on [...]

Via the Dallas Morning News (hat tip – reader Jeff J.):
Noncitizens likely voted in Bexar County
DA investigating as many as 330 people in election fraud case
Dozens of non-U.S. citizens may have voted in Bexar County elections, a county elections official reported, prompting an investigation by federal and local authorities.
The names of 330 noncitizens on the [...]

We heard a lot of whingeing on the Senate floor–and across the cable airwaves (see Geraldo)–about how illegal aliens will now be forced back “into the shadows” because the shamnesty bill failed.
Reality check number 999,998: Cook County, Ill., declares sanctuary
A month after rejecting an identical proposal, the Cook County Board today voted to forbid county [...]

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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 tried to ram through [...]

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 US [...]

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 have [...]

Update: Video highlights at HA.
Bottom line: No knock-out punches, no fireworks. None of the candidates have changed their mind on anything since the last debate. And they probably didn’t change any viewers’ minds about them tonight.
I remain totally….uninspired.
Debunking the AP spin: I see that the BDS victims at the Associated Press are trying to [...]

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 U.S. Immigration [...]

The pro-immigration enforcement National Review and the open-borders Wall Street Journal have been engaged in a battle over the shamnesty bill.
Now, NR has issued a challenge to the WSJ. Get ready to rummmmble:
We hereby challenge the Journal’s editors to debate the immigration bill in a neutral venue with a moderator of their choosing — two [...]

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:
The hotline is paid [...]

The Bush Justice Department is going after the New York City Fire Department because minorities can’t pass the FDNY written exam. Intrepid Heather Mac Donald blows the whistle on career DOJ bureaucrats chasing phantom racism:
How much longer are public and private institutions going to be held hostage to black and Hispanic academic failure? The Center [...]

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 deleted [...]

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 particularly [...]