Showdown Brewing in Senate Over Immigration Reform

A showdown on comprehensive immigration reform is set for next week as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Wednesday that in the face of Republican filibuster threats he intends to bring to the floor the now unpopular bill that passed the Senate last year. If it is unpopular why are you bringing it to the floor?

Everyone has known for months the time frame that we have in the Senate to do this. We have two weeks set aside," Reid, D-Nev., said, adding that he was using the measure merely as a placeholder for a bipartisan bill if one could be reached. Reid said he would permit "an open amendment process." No you are using this for you own political agenda, you know it and I know it, and the American People know it.

Republicans who have been involved in backroom meetings with Democrats and White House negotiators skeptical of Reid's motives said they see the majority leader's move as a hostile one that could very well torpedo an intense, months long effort to design a compromise. You cannot compromise with liberal Democrats. It's almost impossible to do. They continually want to do that that wont work, or make things worse.

The Bush administration is also interested in a new bill. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez began meeting with interested Republicans senators months ago at the request of Republican Conference Chairman Sen Jon Kyle of Arizona.

Those negotiators agreed that the bill passed last year, authored by Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts as well as McCain, Specter, and Martinez is dead in the water this time around. Gone now are provisions for unlimited family migration, a special path to citizenship for the 12 million illegals in the United States and an acknowledgment that merit needs to play a more prominent role in the doling out of work visas for a temporary guest worker program. Unlimited family immigration? Are you kidding me? Do you idiot liberals understand how many people would be coming into this country if you allowed this? Why are illegals getting a special path to citizenship? Please explain it to me.

I am not in agreement with giving special privileges to illegal aliens. Why can't it be done the legal way like most people do? It's time to stop giving in to illegal aliens and just giving them a "free pass." We are the most liberal country in the world allowing anyone to come here whenever they please. If done the legal way all fine and good but to pander to illegal aliens is wrong.