| Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA): pro-amnesty and in support of Big Business. There has to be irony in that!
A striking defeat for the Open Borders Lobby (OBL) was achieved by historic and unprecedented pressure from American citizens. Public pressure scuttled amnesty bill S. 1348 last week and left Senators Reid, Graham, McCain, and Kennedy crying foul!
There were so many things wrong with this bill. There were hundreds of things wrong with this bill, such as amnesty and benefits for illegal aliens, national biometric Big Brother ID, and over two trillion in costs to the US taxpayer.
Senate bill S. 1348 failed to get the needed cloture two times on June 7, causing Senator Harry Reid to pull the bill from the floor. [Cloture is the only procedure by which the Senate can vote to place a time limit on consideration of a bill.]
Senate staffers reported a volume of calls and communications, unlike anything they had seen before in Washington. Most offices reported that calls against this bill were ranging 20 to one or higher against the bill!
ALIPAC and many other allied immigration enforcement groups fought hard with office visits, calls, faxes, e-mails, and protests to stop this bill. Recent national polls show super majorities of Americans in favor of enforcement of existing laws, instead of creating new laws.
Illegal immigration is a top national issue. But the real fight here is to restore the American Republic and the Principles that have made America a great nation. When existing laws that are important to the people go un-enforced, then every American has been deprived of a voice and a functioning Republic for which our flag stands.
In 2006, the Amnesty bill passed in the Senate and was stopped in the House. The fact that this bill a year later was stopped, where it had the most strength in the Senate, represents a political paradigm shift in favor of the majority of American citizens who are demanding enforcement of existing American immigration laws.
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