Senate leaders announce bipartisan compromise on immigration

[papau]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/06/immigration.ap/index.html

Senate leaders announce bipartisan compromise on immigration

Thursday, April 6, 2006; Posted: 11:41 a.m. EDT (15:41 GMT)


Majority Leader Bill Frist says the latest immigration proposal is 'a negotiated middle ground.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Republicans and Democrats closed in on a last-minute compromise Thursday on legislation opening the way to legal status and eventual citizenship for many of the 11 million immigrants living in the United States illegally.<snip>

In general, the legislation would provide for enhanced border security, regulate the flow of future immigrants into the United States and settle the legal fate of the estimated 11 million men, women and children already in the country.

<snip>In general, it would require illegal immigrants who have been in the United States between two years and five years to return to their home country briefly, then re-enter as temporary workers. They could then begin a process of seeking citizenship.

Illegal immigrants here longer than five years would not be required to return home; those in the country less than two years would be required to leave without assurances of returning, and take their place in line with others seeking entry papers.<snip>

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. yet they vote 39-60 AGAINST cloture? What am I missing here?

And where were the dems on cloture? Did wittle Johnnie McCain scare them dems off?

[joanski0]

2. The cloture vote was on the bill that the

Judiciary Committee voted out of Committee. This is a "new" compromise that they will be fighting over.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. thanks. I turn on C-Span II and see an empty chamber, mostly. At least

their music is good.