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Amnesty bill rising from the dead??

Posted by :Drew McKissick June 12, 2007 - 11:58am

Well, don't say we didn't warn you...but the pro-amnesty crowd is doing everything in their power to bring shamnesty back from the dead.

Bush has vowed to revivie the plan and is meeting w/Senators today to try and do just that. Reid says Bush has to twist more GOP arms before he'll bring it back up for a vote. From the WaPo:

For the first time in five years, President Bush will attend the Senate Republicans' weekly policy lunch today as he pushes to revive his moribund overhaul of the nation's immigration laws.

But even before he set foot in the Capitol, several Republican senators issued a terse warning yesterday: Don't expect much.

In the days after the broad compromise on immigration collapsed on Thursday, opposition, if anything, appears to have hardened among some senators who had once been willing to consider the deal. The bill's vociferous critics have also had a long weekend to throw dirt on its grave.

Well, thank goodness for some of them. It's just utterly amazing to me how hard some people will try to do something in the face of such overwhelming opposition from the voters that put them in office. Almost like they're doing it for spite.

Newt Gingrich has another email out today on the subject, and has his own suggestions:

The Proposed Bill Is Based on a Fantasy and Could Never Be Effectively Implemented: It is outrageous when the federal government is so incompetent it has to suspend passport requirements for Mexico and Canada while at the same time suggesting it will be able to process a "Z" visa for 12 million-plus illegal immigrants in one day. Tell your senator that only a Washington power structure totally out of touch with reality could propose that. ...

The Attempt to Blackmail the American People by Threatening to Refuse to Enforce the Law Without a New Bill Is Disgraceful: A number of powerful figures in the Bush Administration and in the Senate have been saying that if we do not agree to pass this destructive bill, they will never enforce the law. Tell your senator that this is an extraordinary effort to blackmail the American people by having officials state that they will fail to perform their sworn duty, and we won't stand for it....

Americans Do Not Change Our Values to Fit Government Failures: When Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff said that we had to "bow to the reality" of millions of people being here illegally, he illustrated the difference between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan as President. ...

Why Should Any American Believe That This Government Will Keep Its Word and Do Better This Time? We now hear from the President that we have failed to control the border and failed to enforce the law on employers, and therefore, we need a new law to replace the law we have been failing to enforce. But we have been here before. The Simpson-Mazzoli immigration law passed 20 years ago promised the same things. Click here for a set of quotes from those politicians who promised to fix the border 20 years ago and see how familiar their enforcement promises sound today. ...

This Is a Fight for America's Future: Your senator needs to understand that this is the key fight over America's future and returning to a law-abiding, effectively enforced, serious government worthy of the American people. Let them know they can be with the vast majority of Americans and kill the bill or they can side with the special interests and try to ram through this extraordinarily destructive bill. Either way, tell them you will remember them and how they vote. ...

Exactly.

 

More:

* Hot Air gives out "Open-borders Oscars"

* Polipundit says Bush has "gone wobbly"

* Bluey points out that Heritage has an alternative reform plan

* Malkin points out police are being gagged from asking about the "status" of "undocumented workers"