{"id":199765,"date":"2007-06-28T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/28\/good-news-immigration-bill-takes-body-blow\/"},"modified":"2007-06-28T10:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T15:55:00","slug":"good-news-immigration-bill-takes-body-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/28\/good-news-immigration-bill-takes-body-blow\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News: Immigration Bill Takes Body Blow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quite frankly, I’m not concerned about amnesty.<\/p>\n

I object to the slave labor<\/span><\/span><\/s> guest worker program. It’s a deal breaker for me.<\/p>\n

I also think that the wall is bull$%#@. 30% of illegals overstay visas, and the draw is employers.<\/p>\n

Strong anti-employer measures is what is needed.<\/p>\n

Additionally, this is a Bush loss, and makes him even more toxic, which might help in getting us out of Iraq.<\/p>\n

Yes, I am suggesting that absent a need to pass any bill right now<\/span>, it’s best to take Bush a notch.<\/p>\n

We can do something with a Dem in the WH.
<\/a><\/p>\n

Senate immigration bill suffers crushing defeat<\/a><\/span>
WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush’s immigration bill suffered a crushing defeat Thursday in the Senate, when members voted against advancing the controversial legislation.<\/p>\n

A final tally for the vote has not yet been announced.<\/p>\n

The bill would provides a path to citizenship for some of the 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. and toughens border security.<\/p>\n

If the bill fails, supporters and opponents of the controversial legislation claim there is no way to bring it back before this Congress ends.<\/p>\n

Senators voting against cutting off debate and referring the bill for a final vote. The cloture vote required a three-fifths majority, or 60 votes.<\/p>\n

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Quite frankly, I’m not concerned about amnesty. I object to the slave labor guest worker program. It’s a deal breaker for me. I also think that the wall is bull$%#@. 30% of illegals overstay visas, and the draw is employers. Strong anti-employer measures is what is needed. Additionally, this is a Bush loss, and makes …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1053,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}