Well folks the BushKennedy crowd has been claiming that this bill will "secure the border".

Today the US Senate voted AGAINST an amendment which would have forbade FELONS from aquiring legal status!! Yes, you read that correctly. Sen John Cornyn offered the amendment. I would post a link here but the drive-bys are too concerned with Pris Hilton's jail stay and so haven't covered it yet.

So Cornyn offers the amendment which the BushKennedy crowd opposed because stealing social secutiry numbers is a felony and so "too many" illegals would be affected.

Soooo Kennedy offers an amendment which says sex-offenders and former gang members would be prohibited from getting legal status. (in the original bill the gang member could sign a document repudiating his gang affiliation and we'd give him legal status. Hell, if we can get those murderers to sign a piece of paper saying they won't kill again we could save prison space and let them go to!!!) Which I guess mean that murderers, drug kingpins, extortionists, traitors, kidnappers, and mafiosa types etc are just fine with Kennedy.(we already knew that drunk drivers were fine with him)

The Senate voted for Kennedy's amendment and against Cornyn's.
So basically we shouldn't worry about legalizing FELONS!!!

Couple that with an article Mr Cornyn wrote and the ONLY conclusion one can come to is that the BushKennedy crowd want MORE illegal immigration.

http://www.star-telegram.com/245/v-p...ry/123257.html

From the article:

"For example, the new bill gives the USCIS all of 24 hours to grant a probationary "Z" visa to any undocumented alien requesting it during the first year that the law is effective. If 12 million apply as expected, that means USCIS would have to process an average of 48,000 applications every day.

Clearly, the agency is being set up for failure. We are ensuring that the new system will not be workable. Law enforcement personnel assure me that there is no way a reliable background check could be conducted within 24 hours even if sufficient personnel were available

Under the bill, the Department of Homeland Security is again prohibited from using all information from Z visa applications to weed out ineligible applicants.

It also forbids crucial information-sharing among law enforcement agencies. For example, if an applicant is denied a Z visa on noncriminal grounds, the bill does not allow DHS to use information supplied -- such as a home address -- to locate and deport the illegal entrant."

Folks, ANYONE who supports this bill can not credibly maintain that they are "securing the borders". This bill does exactly the opposite.

I challenge ANYONE on the other side to come on this board and tell me how this bill "secures the border"!!!