Immigration Bill DOA

[medicinal]

Senate immigration bill suffers crushing defeatPOSTED: 5:12 p.m. EDT, June 28, 2007 CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News
Story Highlightsâ?¢ NEW: "It's a sad day for America," says Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.
â?¢ Backers were "trying to work a compromise to pass something," says opponent
â?¢ Bush says "Congress must prove ... it can come together on hard issues"
â?¢ Bill was centerpiece of Bush's 2nd term; aimed at legalizing 12 million

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Opponents effectively killed President Bush's long-fought and emotion-laden Senate immigration bill Thursday when members voted against advancing the controversial legislation.

The tally was 46 to 53, 14 votes shy of the 60 needed to end debate.

The president, who visited the Capitol this month to push hard for overhauling the nation's immigration laws, delivered a brief statement shortly after the vote saying he was "sorry" Congress could not reach agreement, calling its "failure to act" a "disappointment." (Watch Bush explain why he was disappointed by the vote )

"Congress really needs to prove to the American people that it can come together on hard issues," Bush said.

The bill aimed to create a path to citizenship for some of the 12 million illegal immigrants and to toughen border security.

Explaining his reasons for voting against the bill, GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions, a leading critic of the measure, said "it would not work."

"Our analysis was that it would result in 8.7 million more people in the next 20 years here illegally," said the Alabama senator.

Thursday's vote represented a "sad day for America," said Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New York. (See how your senators voted)

"Everyone knows that our immigration laws are broken," Schumer said. "And a country loses some of its greatness when it can't fix a problem that everyone knows is broken. And that's what happened today."

medicinal Reviewed by medicinal on 06-28-2007. Immigration Bill DOA Senate immigration bill suffers crushing defeatPOSTED: 5:12 p.m. EDT, June 28, 2007 CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News Story Highlightsâ?¢ NEW: "It's a sad day for America," says Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. â?¢ Backers were "trying to work a compromise to pass something," says opponent â?¢ Bush says "Congress must prove ... it can come together on hard issues" â?¢ Bill was centerpiece of Bush's 2nd term; aimed at legalizing 12 million Adjust font Rating: 5

[Psycho4Bud]

They should vote on something that the people would be behind like the biggest damn wall the world has seen.

Have a good one!:s4:

[rebgirl420]

Im pretty happy that the bill was stopped. But im on the fence about what we should do about immigration (no pun intended).

[Psycho4Bud]

Im pretty happy that the bill was stopped. But im on the fence about what we should do about immigration (no pun intended).

To hell with fences....they can be cut, gone over the top, under. Put up a wall like the great wall of china; gaurd posts, seismic sensors, etc.....state of the art.

Have a good one!:s4:

[FreeVenice]

Why is dividing the world such a good ides to people?

[delusionsofNORMALity]

Im pretty happy that the bill was stopped. But im on the fence about what we should do about immigration (no pun intended).

how about enforcing the laws we have and fining the crap out of employers who insist on using illegal labor? how about allowing border enforcement to do its job and giving law enforcement the green light to question immigration status? how about moving against these sanctuary cities whose clarion call is a slap in the face to all honest american citizens?

[rebgirl420]

Well were not trying to "divide the world", we just want people to come over legally. Im not against immigration at all, I could care less, just do it legally. And
P4B im with you, we should do it with the highest technology we can.

[rebgirl420]

how about enforcing the laws we have and fining the crap out of employers who insist on using illegal labor? how about allowing border enforcement to do its job and giving law enforcement the green light to question immigration status? how about moving against these sanctuary cities whose clarion call is a slap in the face to all honest american citizens?

hey, your singing to the choir haha I completely agree.

[Psycho4Bud]

how about enforcing the laws we have and fining the crap out of employers who insist on using illegal labor? how about allowing border enforcement to do its job and giving law enforcement the green light to question immigration status? how about moving against these sanctuary cities whose clarion call is a slap in the face to all honest american citizens?

Right now our border patrol is being assaulted by these people throwing large rocks, bricks, rocks wrapped in cloth and set on fire. Are we willing to give these people the right to fire back in order to protect themselves? What will the world opinion be when we do?

Don't get me wrong, I agree with what ya say but there are other issues to this also.

Have a good one!:s4:

[delusionsofNORMALity]

Why is dividing the world such a good idea to people?

in a perfect world we would need no nations and no fences. this is not a perfect world we seem to have a government that believes not in a hand up but a hand out. the people of this country can't afford to hand out their hard earned wealth to the poor of the entire world.