Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Immigration Sellout, part III - amnesty for criminals?!?

Senator Grassley on immigration deform:

Terrorists and criminals can apply for amnesty – The Secretary of Homeland Security is allowed to waive the grounds of ineligibility for those who have an outstanding administrative final order of removal, deportation or exclusion. Currently there are more than 637,000 alien absconders in the United States that have defied orders to leave.

Every time you think the bill couldn't get any worse, you find a provision where, sure enough, it really is worse than you thought possible.

Update: Senator Cornyn submitted an amendment to address this loophole. If the Senate cannot bring itself to vote for this, they are truly off the deep end.



Update 2: Another disgrace - they are limiting debate of a complex bill to only a few days, no committee hearings, only limited amendments. This is not democracy, this is a farce.

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