- Fifteen Flip in Senate -- Amnesty up for another vote
-- New talking points for phone calls FROM INSIDE THE SENATE, WE
HAVE SOME DETAILED NEW TIPS ON HOW TO MAKE YOUR PHONE CALLS HAVE THE MOST
IMPACT. SEE BELOW.
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- FRIENDS, WE NEED A NEW SET OF PHONE CALLS TODAY.
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- Senate Democratic Leader Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Republican
Leader McConnell (R-Ky.) have announced that they have a deal to resurrect
the S. 1348 Bush/Kennedy Comprehensive Amnesty Bill.
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- Several days of voting on amendments could start as early
as next Tuesday.
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- That means that McConnell believes he has FLIPPED 15
of the 38 Republicans who voted NO on cloture on the bill a week ago. By
producing 15 more Republican YES votes, McConnell could pass cloture which
would end the filibuster and allow the amnesty to pass.
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- We do not yet know the identities of the FLIPPIN' FIFTEEN.
It is quite possible that they will not divulge they have flipped back
to a YES vote until that vote actually occurs.
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- The Senate amnesty-guestworker bill that's in its death
throes doesn't deliver a solution. It only worsens the problem.
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- It suffers from fatal flaws. It deserved its public execution.
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- For example, politicians claim S. 1348 requires enforcement
measures before the amnesty or guestworker programs go into effect -- the
famed "triggers."
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- Alien lawbreakers are not only pardoned for their immigration
lawbreaking, ID fraud and other offenses, they get rewarded with the object
of their intention: keeping the job they came here to steal. They get their
relatives with them.
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- What do the "triggers" require before opening
the floodgates even wider to the hordes?
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- Second, a pittance of the border barriers and personnel
needed to really secure the border. A 2,000 mile southern border, a recent
law requiring 800 miles of fence, but a "trigger" for just 370
miles.
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- Th en there's the real point: The triggers involve process
things, not results.
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- Other scam items? S. 1348 doesn't really end chain migration.
It speeds it up, then continues it in the point system.
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- For a "comprehensive" bill, S. 1348 leaves
out much. It doesn't put an end to anchor babies. It doesn't hold illegitimate
employers accountable for hiring illegals.
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- This bill is typical Teddy Kennedy. Remember all that
talk about "earned legalization" requiring payment of back taxes,
learning English, and such?
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- President Bush recently chided conservatives and said
to "read the bill." Well, I had read the bill and reread it.
There's very little good about the Senate amnesty-guestworker bill.
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- Politicians are trying out the whopper that no legislation
is really an amnesty. Nice try, jerks.
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- Anybody who thinks passing a bad bill is better than
no bill is foolish enough to think S. 1348 is a good bill.
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