President Bush's comprehensive immigration reform, defeated in June, will make a second appearance this week when the Senate takes up various pro-amnesty amendments submitted to the Department of Defense funding bill, H.R. 1585, which is scheduled for debate.Previous coverage of this latest push here. Grassfire is apparently starting some sort of campaign this week.
While not "comprehensive" reform, the latest initiative attempts to pass key provisions of the earlier immigration measure piece by piece by attaching amendments to unrelated bills, a process critics characterize as "stealth."
Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin, D-Ill., has re-introduced another version of his "Dream Act," this time as an amendment (SA 2237) to the DOD funding bill...
Immigration2007b · Sun, 09/16/2007 - 14:26 · Importance: 1
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson
I've sent my faxes, e-mails and start on phone calls moday morning. I'm not going to send dozens of postcards this time though, unless the amendment has two weeks or more of consideration before its final vote. Thank you for the update and doing your part to keep America within the realm of civilization.
John S. Bolton the political facts are if people who want freedom will not fight for civilization as we see it will disappear.