The Senate finally got the hint on Thursday that America is not happy with the poor job they have been doing and showed its dissatisfaction in opposition to the Comprehensive Immigration Bill. The Presidents and Congresses push to slap together a bill that would give amnesty to 12-20 million illegals and provide big business with a cheap labor force garnered opposition from both sides of the aisle. Conservatives saw the bill as giving away America and rewarding people who have broken the law to jump ahead of people seeking citizenship legally. The Left, lead by the Labor Unions saw the temporary worker portion of the Bill as a threat to their membership. It seems the only people who would win with this cobbled together Bill would have been the illegals and they may have been left open to exploitation under some of the bills provisions.

Americans shut down the Capitols phone system with a flood of calls opposing this Bill and the Senate finally got the message, the vote even included 13 Democrats that voted in opposition. As Peter has said in earlier post Congress has missed an opportunity to do the right thing but trying to shove a defective Bill down the throats of Americans is not the way. The voters have seen it before; Many remember the promises made in the eighties when we granted amnesty to illegals then. The borders were supposed to be controlled then, but the laws put on the books then have never been enforced and lead us to the problem we have today.

Yes I agree something has to be done, the status quo doesn’t work and the problem is getting worse daily. The borders must be controlled and this should be done before giving amnesty to illegals not the other way around. The Bill that the Senate tried to push through had lots of rules and funding for border security but how can the American people trust the Government to enforce these rules first. Already the President is sitting on the money for building a border fence but has not used any of it. Prove to us that the border can be controlled first then we can look at the rest of the problem.

We need to know who comes into this country and need to prevent illegal elements like drug-runners and terrorist from entering our country and the only way to do this is by getting control of the border. No other Sovereign nation in the world allows such a free flow of people back and forth across its borders without knowing who these people are than the United States. Stop the flow then we can solve the problems of what to do with those who sre already here. Prove to Americans that we can control the borders and then I feel they will gladly give these people a way to gain citizenship or work here legally. Americans are a generous people and have long believed in legal immigration but we need to find a real way to address this issue, not some slapped together Bill that just makes the problem worse.

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