Republicans Fight For ... Minority Status

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And it looks like they've won.

The deal was also cheered by business leaders and many prominent immigrant advocacy groups.

WASHINGTON, April 6 — After days of painstaking negotiations, Senate leaders today hammered out a broad, bipartisan compromise that would put the vast majority of the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship.

Frist is done as far as any Presidential aspirations go. Though I wouldn't be surprised if the fall out won't be much worse for Republicans if this non-immigration enforcement bill holds sway. Why bother to elect conservative leadership if they can't lead? I suspect many Republican voters will begin to turn off and simply stay home in November.

So much for small government. Republicans are all but admitting that government can't work at all in the face of special interests.

Can you collect back taxes which have no pay stubs to support them? Can anyone marshal millions more people through airports which aren't even secured from terrorists now? Can anyone stop a corrupt Mexican state from using our tax dollars to subsidize their poor? A Republican controlled Senate can't, that's for sure.

Many of the very same Senators supporting this bill solicit Federal dollars to offset the costs to their states for illegal immigrants - dollars for health care, policing, and so forth. And when they put on their Federal hats, evidently it isn't a big enough problem, so long as they have their hand in the taxpayers pocket.

This bill is nonsense. It is unenforceable on its face. It's even less than more of the same, it's worse. How the Dems must be looking forward to that proposed May Day strike by illegal immigrants now. As throngs of illegal aliens march through the streets waving Mexican flags, the Senate can comfort them by ensuring them that one day, this will all be yours.

What a disgrace. It's an abject failure of government. And it's proof positive that Senate Republicans en mass feel they have no real accountability to the legitimate taxpaying citizens of this country as they curry favor with special interest groups spanning business and immigrants. The latter will reward them by voting Democrat one day.

Comments

[COLUMBO]

Finally, an illegal immigrant bill of rights

[RJ]

Why were the American people not given the vote? We have no voice in this matter it is all being done for us.

[ViVi]

Plea bargain with 11 million criminals.