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« Today's Reading List | Main | Quadruple Bogey » December 17, 2005U.S. House Passes Immigration-Control BillBy Donna Locke Final vote was 239-182. The bill has 25 amendments and goes to the Senate next for vote. Here is NumbersUSA's press release about passage of this bill. Excerpt: NumbersUSA and several other immigration-reform organizations had warned lawmakers this fall that an enforcement bill would have to contain three major provisions to be taken seriously as a response to the rising public outcry from being overwhelmed by unprecedented immigration numbers. The bill provided only one of those, but the other two were added through amendments during floor votes. The three are:Information about the bill and its attached amendments, and vote records on these, can be found here. Some of the amendments passed or failed by voice vote, some by roll call vote. Roll call votes on amendments and final passage of the bill can be found in descending order here on lines referring to H.R. 4437. On those lines, click on the number at the left to bring up the roll, and you will see how your House representative voted. If your rep voted the same way Rep. Tancredo voted, you have a smart rep. The Senate will probably try to attach a guest-worker-type amnesty to this bill and will try to torpedo the bill in other ways. Call Sen. Bill Frist's Washington office, 202-224-3344; and Sen. Lamar Alexander's office, 202-224-4944; and tell them what you want them to do. The U.S. Constitution is not just a piece of paper. Posted in Immigration
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"Nobody is advocating the deportation of 11 million illegal immigrants", said Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., sponsor of a guest worker measure. Without a temporary worker program, he said, "We simply won't enforce the law, and that's the dirty little secret here." In other words, Flake is not in favor of Bush's guest worker program requiring them to return to their home country and get in line. Isn't that called amnesty? This Flake knows all too well that policy trumps enforcement every time. Tancredo even said that there are enough laws already on the books, "if the government would enforce them." The White House said that it "remains committed to comprehensive immigration reform, including a temporary worker program that avoids amnesty." Majority Leader Bill Frist, says he will bring up immigration legislation in February that will provide a framework for guest worker ideas. Amnesty is on the way. Posted by: Rick Forman at December 18, 2005 11:18 AMPost a comment
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