Immigration Compromise is "dead" in the Senate

[kpete]

Immigration Compromise Stalls in Senate
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Published: April 7, 2006
WASHINGTON, April 7 — A carefully constructed compromise on immigration reform ran into a roadblock in the Senate today as Democrats fended off conservative Republican efforts to amend the agreement and an effort to cut off debate on elements of the plan failed by a lopsided vote.

After the 60-to-38 vote, the Senate returned to routine business, sidelining a two-week effort to find a way of dealing with the estimated 11 million people who are living in the country illegally.

"I think politics got in front of policy on this issue," said Senator Edward Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, who was one of the principal sponsors of the reform legislation.

Despite the bipartisan agreement announced Thursday, some conservative Republicans insisted on trying to offer amendments that the bill's sponsors said would have distorted its purpose. The Democratic leader, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, termed the effort "filibuster by amendment."

Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama, said the compromise had not involved the people who should have been involved and was still too generous on what he termed "amnesty. "

"This bill is a dead horse, in my view," he said
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/07/washington/07cnd-immig.html?hp&ex=1144468800&en=06036fea1d52aba0&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[DemFromMem]

1. Notice who is leading the charge AGAINST the Senate bill

Sessions (R-AL)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Isakson (R-GA)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Frist (R-TN)
Coburn (R-OK)
Inhofe (R-OK)

For those DUers who are against our party on this issue, it might help to know who your allies are.

[sadiesworld]

2. Byron Dorgan is opposed...

he called it a "corporate strategy to keep wages low". I stand with Byron Dorgan.

In the mid 60's, dems shut down a temporary worker program at the behest of people like Cesar Chavez and Edward R. Murrow b/c of the detrimental effect it had on wages.

If dems insist on supporting corporations and distancing themselves from US workers, it doesn't mean that I can be bullied or propagandized into following them.

[DemFromMem]

4. Show me a liberal whose against it

Is Russ Feingold for or against? Is Schumer for or against? Is Patty Murray for or against? Is Ron Wyden for or against? Is Barack for or against?

Are they all sell outs? Or maybe they realize that this is a civil rights issue. The Republicans I mentioned KNOW its a civil rights issue and that's why they're against it. I promise you those guys are not out to help the little guy and go after those "evil" corporations. By the way, the vast majority of those corporations you've demonized that are employing undocumented immigrants are mom and pop companies.

[OutsidetheBox]

3. Just show these DUers a Mexican flag...

and they'll disappear like cockroaches... Booga booga, fear the brown people and their colorful flag!

To be associated with the list above is truly shameful.

Ignorance + Fear = Xenophobia