Senate Immigration Bill

    The Washington Times reports that the Senate has voted to take up the Immigration Bill with a full Senate discussion, expected to last three weeks.

    Sen. Cruz called the Immigration Bill, as prepared by the Gang of Eight , an impending disaster for the following nine reasons: 

• Provides immediate legalization without securing the border
• Rewards criminal aliens, absconders, and deportees and undermines law enforcement
• Contains extremely dangerous national security loopholes
• Facilitates fraud in our immigration system
• Creates no real penalties for illegal immigrants and rewards them with entitlements
• Delays for years the implementation of E-Verify
• Does not fix our legal immigration system
• Advanced through a process predicated on a deal struck before markup
• Rewards those who have broken our laws by offering a special path to citizenship.

    The fact that the Democratic Sen. Schumer from New York is for for the bill in its present form, including the nine items mentioned above, automatically tells us it's a bad bill for the country. Schumer and his Democratic compatriots actually want no immigration bill which would place limitations on potential new voters coming into the country and expected to vote Democratic. For those millions of illegal immigrants already in the country, Democrats want to guarantee Democrat votes by giving illegal immigrants benefits, for which they will show much appreciation. It is the old political technique of gaining votes by promising two chickens in every pot or kissing many babies.
    Since Democrats outnumber Republicans in the Senate, it is likely that the bill will pass in its disaster form. The only possibility of stopping it is a Republican filibuster, and that seems to have been eliminated for some unknown reason.