Bullshit Bush/McCain/Kennedy/Graham immigration/cheap labor exploitation bill on Senate floor today

[bluestateguy]

We need to defeat this bill and tell the cheap labor exploiters to shove it.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.immigration26jun26,0,6153916.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines

WASHINGTON // The beleaguered immigration bill makes a much-anticipated return to the Senate floor today, with some senators saying that a critical procedural vote will signal whether the legislation will be defeated or eventually clear the Senate.

If today's showdown vote - on a motion to officially revive the bill - fails to procure the 60 votes needed to pass, it will probably be the end of the road for comprehensive immigration reform this year. But if it passes, senators are predicting - some grudgingly - that it would herald Senate passage of the measure by week's end. The bill then would go to the House for further debate.

The complicated measure, among other things, aims to improve border security, introduce employee verification procedures to ensure that workers are in the United States legally and put an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants already in the country on a path to citizenship.

The bill's opponents are forecasting its demise, claiming a steady erosion of support among senators and the American public over the past few weeks. But some of the legislation's biggest opponents did not seem confident yesterday that they would be able to prevent the bill from moving forward.

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[sinkingfeeling]

1. Sorry, I don't agree with you.

[VP505]

2. I agree 100% this

bill is another sham that will NOT be of much benefit to anyone but the cheep labor lobby and should be defeated. The guest worker provisions for those not desiring citizenship make a JOKE out of any notion of fines and penalties for those here illegally who claim to want citizenship!

[peacebird]

3. my knee jerk reaction - if * is FOR it, then it must be really really bad

[VP505]

4. Your right, after 6 years

of sticking it to working people its a little hard to believe that all of a sudden he is soooo concerned about doing something good for anyone who isn't super wealthy regardless of where their from.

[librechik]

5. yeah--Bush's name on it alone brands it as toxic

but this approach avoids the problems rather than solving them. Mexico needs to care for their own poor--with our help. But since we don't believe in that sort of thing for our own, it will take a long time for that to happen.

a flawed bill from a flawed president--nothing but flowers for his corporate buddies. Suffering and no solutions for the poor on both sides of that cursed Fence.