Amnesty, Illegal Aliens [Update]

Tuesday May 22. 2007 2 a.m. EDT
The Senate voted 69-23 for cloture on a motion to skip the committee process and bring the Kennedy/Bush/Kyle (KBK) Amnesty (S. 1348) to the Senate floor for debate and amendments all this week and then another week in June.
Click the above link to see how your senators voted.

They Didn't Even Bother to Hide It
This Is An Amnesty Bill From The First Line
The Bush-Kennedy spin machine is desperately trying to say this is not an amnesty bill. GrassFire.org just received a copy of the actual bill (all 326 pages) and amnesty wasn’t hard to find because it STARTED ON PAGE 1, LINE 1!

The very first line of the bill makes it clear that illegals get “probationary status” before any border security triggers are implemented. Once given this legal status, the bill expressly states that a former illegal alien “may not be considered an unauthorized alien.” This is amnesty!

Grassfire.org posted a detailed analysis
along with a link to the full text of the bill.

Senate Votes To Bring Amnesty Bill to Floor
(May 21) Today, the Senate voted for cloture on S. 1348 by a 69-23 margin, which means the bill can now be subject to further debate and amended. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said that the Senate will not finish work on the bill prior to the Memorial Day recess.
Veterans to Congress: No Amnesty
The American Legion – the nation's largest veterans organization -- is calling on Congress to reject proposed legislation that would grant "fast track" citizenship or amnesty to illegal aliens, and to reduce the illegal alien population through aggressive enforcement of immigration laws and stronger border security.
National Commander Paul A. Morin said “[The immigration] system is broken and it needs fixing, and the solutions being tossed around by some members of Congress are not in the best interest of this country."

Fact Sheet: Border Security and Immigration Reform according to Presidente Arbusto


The pro-amnesty Washington Post ran a weekend story indicating that the White House has been met with a firestorm of resistance throughout the country to its immigration plan. And the Washington Times ran a story Sunday with the headline: "Illegals bill sinks Bush job approval." A new Rasmussen poll found Pres. Bush's approval rating dropped to an all-time low for that poll, at 34 percent. "The president's ratings have tumbled each time immigration reform dominates the news," Scott Rasmussen said.